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From Labor Union Report:
Posted September 22, 2011
Union President Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Funds
Ohio News Network
Sept. 21, 2011
CINCINNATI – A former Cincinnati union leader has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from employees in the Cincinnati Organized and Dedicated Employees union.
Diana Frey, 51, entered the plea Wednesday morning of one count of wire fraud and admitted that she embezzled union funds between 2005 and June 2011.
Frey faced charges of embezzling more than $757,000 from the people she was supposed to represent. Frey was the head of the CODE union and an employee with the City of Cincinnati.
Read the rest @ Ohio News Network.
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From the president’s hometown comes an example of what he is actually supporting. The Chicago Tribune reports that an investigation it conducted with WGN-TV found “23 retired union officials from Chicago stand to collect about $56 million from two ailing city pension funds.”
That’s an average of $2.4 million each, and some will rake in even more. Dennis Gannon, a former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, stands to collect some $5 million. In line for $4 million apiece are Liberato “Al” Naimoli, president of the Cement Workers Union Local 76, and James McNally, vice president of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150.
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WHO actually benefits from Obama’s giveaways to the Unions?
The members?
OR the bosses?
Money distributed throughout Unions Cosa Nostra style?
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Cosa Nostra Chart
Consigliere (Italian consigliere “counselor”, pronounced [konsiʎˈʎɛːre]) is a position in the American Mafia. The word was popularized by Mario Puzo‘s novel The Godfather(1969), and its film adaptation. In the novel, a consigliere is an adviser or counselor to the boss, with the additional responsibility of representing the don in important meetings both within the don’s crime family and with other crime families. The consigliere is a close, trusted friend and confidant, the mob’s version of an elder statesman. He is devoid of ambition and dispenses disinterested advice. This passive image of the consigliere does not correspond with what little is known of real-life consiglieri.[1]
A real-life Mafia consigliere is generally the number three person in a crime family, after don (boss) and underboss in most cases.[2] A crime family normally has only one consigliere at a time, but bosses have on occasion appointed more than one. The boss, underboss, and consigliere constitute a three-man ruling panel, or “Administration.”[3]
When a boss gives orders, he issues them in private either to the consigliere or directly to his caporegimes as part of the insulation between himself and operational acts.
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A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to just a capo, is a term used in the Mafia for a high ranking made member of a crime family who heads a “crew” of soldiers and has major social status and influence in the organization. Caporegime is an Italian word, which is used to signify the head of a family in Sicily, but has now come to mean a ranking member, similar to captain or sergeant. In general, the term indicates the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate who commands a crew of soldiers and reports directly to a boss or an underboss.
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Worker Advocate Challenges Obama Labor Board Overreach in Federal Court
Mon, 09/19/2011 – 11:07 — Anthony Riedel
Worker Advocate Challenges Obama Labor Board Overreach in Federal Court
National Right to Work Foundation attorneys fight Labor Board’s decision to promote monopoly unionism in virtually every workplace in America
Washington, DC (September 16, 2011) – Today, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed a federal lawsuit challenging the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new rules governing the notification of employee rights in the workplace.
The new rules require every employer to post incomplete information about employee rights online and in the workplace, even if they’ve never committed a violation or been accused of unfair labor practices. However, these rules do not require union officials to issue information about workers’ rights to refrain from union membership or opt out of union dues. Until the rule changes, which were implemented in late August, employers were required to post notices of workers’ rights only if a violation of labor law occurred.
National Right to Work Foundation attorneys believe the NLRB has exceeded its authority granted by Congress and violated free speech guarantees of the First Amendment.
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