印第安纳州的一名前熨斗工人395名当地人395人因殴打印第安纳州的非工会工人而在印第安纳波利斯联邦法院被判处四年徒刑四年。

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.

According to his plea，2016年1月，威廉姆森（Williamson）得知，一家非工会熨斗公司正在为Dyer Baptist教堂（Dyer Baptist Church）进行工作，他认为该教堂位于本地395地区。2016年1月6日，威廉姆森（Williamson）访问了该地点，从总承包商拉格斯特·穆尔德（Lagestee-Mulder）和D5 Iron Works的劳动合同中寻求本地395的商业合同。两家公司都拒绝了要约。

The day after those failed efforts, Williamson returned to the site along with then-Local 395 president Jeffrey Veach and a group of rank-and-file members of Local 395. According to court documents, the union members carried out a coordinated assault on the non-union workers, beating their victims with loose pieces of wood, punching them and kicking them. The attack left one of the non-union workers with a broken jaw that required several surgeries and prolonged hospitalization.

Veachalso pled guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act extortionand was sentenced separately in September 2020 to nearly three-and-half years in federal prison.