Another Boeing union ex-president is jail bound
The top post at United Aerospace Workers Local 1069, the union that represents employees who build military helicopters at Boeing's Ridley plant, is becoming a stepping stone to prison.
Another Boeing union ex-president is jail bound
William Bender
The top post at United Aerospace Workers Local 1069, the union that represents employees who build military helicopters at Boeing's Ridley plant, is becoming a stepping stone to prison.
Two years after Anthony Forte Jr., the former president of UAW 1069, reported to a federal prison in Kentucky for running a kickback scheme out of the Boeing Helicopters Credit Union, the guy who replaced him as president, Michael Patterson, was sentenced to six months in prison.
Patterson pleaded guilty in March to attempted possession of prescription painkillers following a four-year federal probe that led to the arrest of 37 people – including 23 Boeing workers – on drug charges. Authorities say they were buying and selling Oxys, Xanax, fentanyl and Suboxone, among other drugs.
The FBI and DEA focused not just on the alleged sellers, but the users, too, because of their "critical role" in manufacturing U.S. military choppers, according to U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger. In other words, you don't want a pill-popping Boeing employee doing the dope fiend lean while he's installing the navigation system on a Chinook.
In addition to the prison time, Patterson must perform 200 hours of community service and pay a $1,000 fine.
(h/t @cindyscharr)
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Very nice !
The chop shop has been warned.— Redwoodser- Great, just great.
More fun and sleazy games at work.
Neighbors, Prepare to see this plant relocate along with the jobs that go with it....just like the Navy Yard.
Worker drug use, drinking, theft of tools and parts, putting 2 hours of lazy effort in on an 8 hour day, purchasing-travel-OT fraud, preventable cost overruns, and the rep for the absolute shoddiest shipwork and fitting of all yards sunk the Navy Yard for us.
Of course, mismanagement and malfeasance at upper levels too.
All with a lack of care since some other parent's kid gotta ride that chopper or sail on that ship.
Take, take, take....the new American way.
WTF happened to my city and my country while I was gone, doin my fair share?— BustedUpGrunt - I guess the Union Dues will be going up to pay for the fines these guys have to pay. Thank God for the unions that protect the lazy workerss and cost this country jobs— rduexpress
- You NeoCons will break this union yet! Nothing will stop the Giant/Walmartization of this nation or the "Progress" of the Middle Class's Race To The Bottom!— coqui_chris
