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James B. Jacobs
Labor racketeering has attracted a good deal of attention from law enforcement agencies, legislators, and journalists, but surprisingly little attention from corruption scholars. While the origin of the term "labor racketeering" is obscure, it has come to be associated with a type of corruption perpetrated by union officials under the direction of, or in conjunction with, organized crime. Organized crime bosses exploit unions and union members through alliances with corrupted or intimidated union officials. In return, union officials provide mobsters access to the union treasury, pension and welfare funds, no-show jobs with the union, and support in establishing and enforcing employer cartels. The insistence that attacking or even studying labor union corruption and racketeering is bad for the labor movement (and is even "anti-labor") has a long history. No doubt some investigators, critics, and students of labor racketeering and corruption are unfriendly to labor unions, some perhaps because of what they learned from their research.
