“There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.” — Henry David Thoreau
Not all unions are corrupt, but most unions have some people who are corrupt.
Today, the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor Management Standards is planning to do a “public outreach” campaign to let the public know that unions are not as corrupt as they tend to seem.
That’s all well and good.
However, with the recent sentencing of two former United Auto Workers presidents to prison in the last two months, union corruption is alive and well–and, in the case of the UAW, it is union members who will be paying the price for years to come.
In this episode of Union Free Radio, host Peter List talks about the five basic types of union corruption and shares examples of each.