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In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Hoffa [View all]Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)I hear you paint houses = I hear you're a hitman for hire, which is the first thing Hoffa asked Sheeran. The movie showed Sheeran's 'activism' on behalf of 'labor' and Hoffa in Chicago. Another rival union, the SIU, wanted to organize the cab company, so Hoffa had Sheeran get goons to destroy the cabs.
That wasn't done to benefit the working man and woman, it was done to knock out another union which was a rival. Sheeran wasn't being asked to threaten a boss or paint a boss's house, he was asked to attack another union and the livelihood of the workers who were going with a different union.
I'm a union member myself, have been in 3 unions, including Teamsters 249 (card in withdrawal), and currently IBEW 5.
All unions aren't corrupt, the most mob corrupt unions, like the Teamsters, kept backing the repugs, like Hoffa backed Nixon, like the Teamsters backed Reagan. And the repugs always back the management types who fight hard to take away all of labor's share of the pie.