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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It’s also a bastardization of a loophole that was originally intended for special scenarios. Say, for instance, a lifelong union worker found himself in a situation where he needed to maintain employment even though he should be retiring (wife/child got cancer, catastrophic financial crash, etc): the union would hire the retiree as a “no show” employee, and officially they would be required to do a little paperwork at home….but really, it was just a way to protect a lifelong member from falling through society’s cracks. Obviously didn’t take long for organized crime and opportunism to jump on that.
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