A federal judge has sentenced Jeffrey Veach, former president of an ironworkers' union local in Indiana, to 42 months in federal prison for his role in organizing a 2016 assault by members of his local—using fists and pieces of hardwood—on non-union ironworkers at a school project, the U.S. Dept. of Justice says.
The attack, which left multiple workers with serious injuries, was part of an effort to obtain a contract for Local 395 to help construct the Plum Creek Christian Academy, a school affiliated with the Dyer Baptist Church in Dyer, Ind.