Chicago Outfit and the Hotel Employees and Restuarant Employees (HERE) Union

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Retired Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins and Mob historian and writer Camillius “Cam” Robinson discuss the Chicago Outfit and their infiltration of the Bartenders and Beverage Dispensers Union, which became an international union called Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union until the present day, where it is known as Unite HERE. Edward Hanley rose to lead this powerful union with the help of Joey Aiuppa and the Chicago Outfit. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	When too many workers are barely getting by, should they be paying for the union boss to get rich?
0:07.2	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there. Another episode here, Gangland Wire. I'm in the studio.
0:12.4	As you can see behind me, we've got our friend from Chicago, Cambyless Cam Robinson. Welcome, Cam.
0:19.4	Hey, Gary, glad to be here as usual.
0:21.5	Well, you know, I haven't talked to you for a little bit, but we'll get something going today, won't we?
0:26.7	Absolutely, absolutely. Work's been a little bit crazy, but I'm glad to be back, glad to be, glad to be doing what I like to do. Yeah. Too bad we can't get paid a little bit more for what we like to do,
0:39.3	but you know, you never know. We may hit a big one these days. Anyhow, moving right along.
0:46.9	We're going to talk about the different kind of, you know, there's a variety of different smaller
0:52.0	waiters and bartenders and restaurant workers
0:56.2	and hotel workers unions that the mob ended up taking control of it.
1:01.2	And I believe you mentioned that in Fear City, I think the documentary that Paul Castellano
1:06.6	made some statements on tape about some of those unions.
1:10.7	Isn't that right, Cam? Yeah, yeah. There's some really interesting tape about some of those unions. Isn't that right, Cam?
1:12.0	Yeah, yeah. There's some really interesting stuff about him not wanting Chicago to interfere in some of the business that was going on in New York.
1:19.7	I mean, if you read between the lines, that's what he's talking about.
1:22.9	Yeah, interesting. A little, just put up a little YouTube video, a little funny one about
1:29.5	the which is better, the Chicago outfit or the New York Five Families.
1:33.8	As always, I get a lot of accent off and something like that.
1:37.1	This guy named Ben Ellickson, my friend, from up in Chicago, he made up a really funny little
1:41.6	movie on that.
1:42.7	Oh, yeah.
1:43.2	It was hilarious, I thought. The starch and the
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