slimshady_007 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:41 am
Can someone plz explain to me how the mob makes money off of union jobs?
Concessions to favored, mob-connected companies allowing them advantages in bidding or allowing them to hire nonunion workers to avoid paying overtime or benefits.
Allowing a favored contractor to form a new company with a different name with the understanding that there will be no strikes or organizing campaigns at the new company.
Contracts steered to mob-owned businesses.
Mob-connected employers paying off union officials to avoid signing a collective bargaining agreement.
Mob figures, with the help of compliant union officials and workers, slowing down work or delivery of supplies to extort money from disfavored contractors.
Mob members and associates, or their relatives, being put on union payrolls without having to work.
Pension and health and welfare fund trustees being influenced to favor mob interests.
Mob-controlled unions making campaign contributions to ingratiate themselves with politicians.
Mob-controlled unions using construction and other work sites to promote illegal gambling and loansharking activities.