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A former northwest Indiana union official was recently sentenced to more than four years in prison for extortion after an assault on non-union workers. It started when members of a local union found out work was being done without union workers in their area.
According to the Department of Justice, 70-year-old Thomas Williamson Jr. learned that a non-union company was working on a church in Dyer, Indiana. Investigators say he considered it to be in the Iron Workers Local 395’s “territory.”
Williamson attempted to halt construction at the church by threatening workers. When they refused, he returned the next day with members of the union and carried out what the DOJ describes as a “brutal and coordinated” assault on non-union workers. The attack left one of the non-union workers with a broken jaw that required several surgeries and prolonged hospitalization.
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Indianapolis, Indiana - An Indiana man and former business agent of Iron Workers Local 395 was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act extortion.
Thomas Williamson Sr., 70, of Schererville, pleaded guilty on Jan. 24, 2020. According to court documents, Williamson organized and led an assault on a group of non-union ironworkers as part of an attempt to obtain a contract to perform construction work on the Plum Creek Christian Academy, a school affiliated with the Dyer Baptist Church in Dyer, Indiana.
In January 2016, Williamson learned that a non-union ironworking company was performing work for the Dyer Baptist Church, which he considered to be in Local 395’s “territory.” On Jan. 6, 2016, Williamson visited the construction site and made threats to the workers to get them to stop work on the site. Upon being