GARDA Security Employees Speak Out About Their Complaints

John HIGGINS, et al. Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, SECURITY, POLICE, FIRE PROFESSIONALS OF AMERICA (SPFPA), International Executive Board of the SPFPA, and DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. On August 17, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Danny Woodcock, former President of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 83770 (located in Columbus, Miss.), pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement of union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c).

A group of fire and security employees appeals the district court's summary judgment in favor of their union and employer in this hybrid action under Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act. Here, the action in question is Kelly's November 8, 2010 letter to Tartack, Local 506's president, indicating that Flagg had assaulted him and that he is prepared to bring a class action suit against the union and Cheyney to ensure others' safety.

The sentencing follows an investigation by the OLMS New York District Office, the Amtrak Police Department, and the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the OLMS Dallas-New Orleans District Office and United States Secret Service Tulsa Resident Office.

In Colvin, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit determined that the individual defendant was sued in his official capacity because: the caption listed the defendant as the Sherriff of the Lee County;” each time the individual was referenced in the complaint he was identified as the sheriff of the county; and, most importantly, the plaintiff's counsel stated on the record that the suit was brought against the sheriff in his official capacity.

Central to the Kansas City dispute is whether private-sector workers of a company contracted by the Department of Homeland Security are subject to the same restrictions that apply to their federal counterparts. And Floyd Bus Company, Inc., a single employer ( 29-CA-188517 and 29-CA-194097; 366 NLRB No. 54 ) Medford, NY, April 3, 2018.

On May 25, 2018, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Michael Brown, a former management employee at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA) (located in Detroit, Mich.), and former Co-Director of the United Auto Workers (UAW) - Chrysler National Training Center (NTC) pled guilty to one count of misprision of a felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 4. The guilty plea stems from Brown's knowledge of a conspiracy between FCA executives acting in the interest and on behalf of FCA and UAW officials to provide prohibited payments and things of value to UAW officials and concealing such knowledge by deliberately providing misleading and incomplete testimony in the federal grand jury about the conspiracy.

The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Philadelphia-Pittsburgh District Office. The spate of recent right to work laws, SPFPA Union Busters the Janus case, the avalanche of major union corruption stories (see below), and a pro-employee NLRB are forcing some in Big Labor to admit weaknesses in their model (ie.