I’ve been watching Sopranos lately, and a few times they’ve talked about construction jobs, the unions, and getting ‘no show’ jobs (whatever they are) and I realised a lot of Organised Crime I’ve heard about always seems to be tied them, yet I have no idea how it makes so much money for them.
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Unions are usually corrupt, as is construction.
Bribes, kickbacks, blackmail, threats, and extortion are all used to get money and influence.
For example, to do work on projects, we would be required to buy “tickets” for things. We had to buy “temporary union cards”. We had to hire on staff to sit and do nothing.
Union dues and “donations” are funneled to fat-cat officers and organized crime.
Hazardous waste gets covered by construction debris and dumped cheaply in small, unsuspecting dumps. The president of our town’s Little League had to disappear into the Witness Protection Program after turning state’s evidence in a case.
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