Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom By Matthew Vadum Sometimes union thugs wear pinstriped business suits. Investment banker Ron Bloom is one of those thugs. He decided in the 1970s to devote his life to helping labor unions stick it to America’s corporations. As an organizer, negotiator, and researcher for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Booth observed that many union negotiators didn’t have the skills they needed to bargain effectively with management. “Unions were being backed into corners by companies and couldn’t understand on a sophisticated level, the company’s arguments … Labor needed to be armed … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom