Word: extorting
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Muller's view is totally consistent with his life. The son of impoverished immigrant Jews, he grew up in the '20s on Chicago's West Side. Every trip out of his neighborhood was a patrol through enemy territory. As a child, Muller saw thugs extort money from his mother after threatening to break up her fish store...
Creating Shortages. The building unions have been able to extort outsize increases because they control most of the labor supply. Contractors get their manpower for each project through union hiring halls. Unions generally dictate crew sizes and working conditions. If a contractor refuses to schedule regular overtime, he is given the dregs of the labor pool. Unions have been able to create artificial labor shortages by restricting admission; most insist on a tortuous apprenticeship training of three to five years. Local unions usually do their own bargaining, city by city and craft by craft. When one powerful unit wins...