Sentence examples similar to union of mobs from inspiring English sources
But that's not really what's at stake in Madison, or in the half-dozen other U.S. state capitals where a growing number of union-based mobs are accumulating while blocking streets and occupying buildings.
Speaking at the Teamsters' 26th convention, James P. Hoffa, their president, said the union was now largely free of mob influence.
The PRI was always a giant octopus of an organization, with business interests, state enterprises, its own labor unions, street mobs and mass organizations of the poor and a dozen other tentacles, known and unknown, all of them attached to the octopus's head, which consists of money and corruption.
Last week, for example, at the retrial of John A. (Junior) Gotti on kidnapping charges, a former F.B.I. supervisor listed more than 20 "made men" in Gotti's Gambino family alone who have either been expelled or resigned from those unions rather than fight allegations of mob connections.
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The protests began peacefully, if loudly, but the strength of feeling over the controversial right-to-work law became apparent with complaints variously of a "union mob" assault, an undemocratic pepper-spraying and an unorthodox removal of a tent.
"Look, a lot of the problem is that the public sees unions as mob land," Mr. La Barbera said.
Hundreds of strikers shouting "U.A.W.!" and toting placards identifying their union locals mobbed the parts factory's gates.
It wasn't that the union was mobbed up.
