A former business agent of Iron Workers Local 395 in Indiana was recently sentenced in Indianapolis federal court to four years in federal prison for assaulting non-union workers at an Indiana jobsite.
In January 2020, Thomas Williamson Sr., 70, pled guilty to charges of organizing and leading an assault on a group of non-union iron workers to help obtain a contract for work on the Plum Creek Christian Academy in Dyer, Ind. His sentencing was delayed due to a pandemic shutdown of the federal court for most of 2020. As part of his sentence, Williamson also is banned from holding any union office for 13 years.