News is still buzzing this morning about the ever-so-rare RICO lawsuit filed by Smithfield Foods against the United Food and Commercial Workers (and Change To Win, and Andy Stern, and a host of others …). Just to be clear: this is a huge step in the modern fight against unions’ anti-corporate smear campaigns. But as a walk down memory lane, here are some other RICO cases faced by unions in the past:

• In 1989, Carrefour had to file a RICO case against UFCW
• The U.S. government has been eying a RICO conviction against the allegedly mobbed-up dockworkers union
• Overnite filed a RICO case against the Teamsters
• Hmm … after a quick poke around the Inter-web, it seems like another case against the Teamsters
• One of the precursor unions to the modern UNITE HERE faced a federal RICO lawsuit that led to its president stepping down