Officials at a Long Island building firm claim in a lawsuit that union members threatened them with rape, tried to disrupt a manager’s wedding and formed an angry, 200-person mob at a restaurant where two execs were eating.
Executives at Tradeoff claim they were targeted by members of Laborers Local 79 for allegedly using nonunion labor, according the Nassau Supreme Court suit.
One union member texted a picture of his penis to a company executive on Jan. 31 and threatened to rape him, the suit says.
“You and your whole company is going to take it up the a- -,” said a voicemail received by Tradeoff executive Justin Hagedorn on Feb. 3.
Union members distributed posters with the date and location of a wedding reception for Tradeoff officer Jason Abadie in June 2016.
The two Tradeoff officials also said they were outside a Midtown steakhouse on Feb. 15 when they were surrounded by 200 union members who shouted, spit and tossed lit cigarettes at them for 20 to 30 minutes before police arrived.
In one phone call on Jan. 31, union activist Thomas McHale allegedly threatened Tradeoff supervisor José Bonilla, saying, “If I went against the wrong team, I would just kiss my kids goodbye and say they never gonna see daddy again,” according to the suit filed by Tradeoff lawyer Patricia Pastor.
A union spokesman scoffed at the lawsuit.
“We look forward to defending the First Amendment rights of our members and our union,” said Richard Weiss.