A judge ordered one of Chicago’s most politically powerful labor unions to suspend picketing against 16 funeral homes last week after receiving reports that striking Teamsters had, among other things, disturbed a child’s funeral.
SCI Illinois Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest funeral home chains, asked a district court to intervene after striking funeral directors and drivers with Teamsters Local 727 allegedly harassed grieving families.
“We are grateful that the court agreed to issue this temporary restraining order, and we are hopeful that it will help protect grieving families who are experiencing the most difficult times of their lives,” Larry Michael, managing director for SCI Illinois Services, Inc., said in a release. “While we recognize and respect the Teamsters’ right to lawfully picket, we have been shocked and saddened by their attempts to make grieving families the target of the cruel and outrageous attacks.”
The company testified in its filing that union members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German Shepard on a dead woman’s daughter and husband.
and they found the death of a child amusing
The funeral home was eventually forced to call the police when picketers allegedly disrupted a child’s funeral with laughter. The officer asked the Teamsters to leave, but protesters returned when he drove away.
“We will be here for the visitation; we will be here for your funeral,” Teamster driver Lester Plewa allegedly shouted into a bullhorn as a funeral director met with a dying man planning his arrangements with family members.
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Union thugs doing what union thugs do best.
@Buffalobob:
How sad , but true……
this is outrageous, they all should be fired,
it tell of the lack of respect if they are on strike
the beast which was hidden, now appear because of their strike,
which should not be, and is not acceptable, on any strike to pick on people,
THE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DEAL WITH ANY UNIONIZE BUSINESS SO TO MAKE A POINT FOR THEM TO NEVER FORGET IT’S ABUSE,
IT’S SICKENING
I probably shouldn’t have tipped off OFA that the former GOP members of the “gang of eight” were going to make an appearance to mourn the loss of their Republican supporters.
My bad.