When Glenn Blicht demanded money, he expected to receive it. What he’s expecting now is incarceration. On February 12, Blicht, former president of the Ridgefield Park, N.J.-based International Longshoremen’s Association Local 164, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for demanding and receiving about $150,000 in payments over several years from an unnamed unionized employer in exchange for dropping the union’s arbitration complaints over alleged unfair labor practices. Such play-for-pay deals are illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act. Blicht had pleaded guilty last October after being charged in July. The actions follow a probe by the FBI, the IRS and the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General and Employee Benefits Security Administration.
As Union Corruption Update had explained twice earlier (here and here), Glenn Blicht, a resident of Wilton, Connecticut and an officer of Local 164 during 2009-19, shortly after taking office began demanding cash … Read More ➡
Glenn Blicht sold out his union for a price. Now he’s on the verge of paying a different kind of price. On October 16, Justice Department officials announced that Blicht, former president of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 164, had 
When Glenn Blicht talked about “tickets,” it wasn’t about a concert or a ball game. At least one businessman who had dealings with him learned the hard way. Last Friday, July 26, Blicht, president of Local 164 of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA),