On August 9, Ernest Milewski, former president of United Food and Commercial Workers, Northeast District Council, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to one count of embezzling union funds and one count of embezzling assets from a union-sponsored health care benefit program, each in an unspecified sum. Union Corruption Update reported on this case back in July. Milewski at the time had been charged with embezzling a combined more than $200,000 from the council, which is based in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and its allied benefit fund. The charge and guilty plea follow a joint probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards, Office of Inspector General, and Employee Benefits Security Administration.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 348 in New York City for more than three decades has been a family affair - a Fazio family affair. And right now the family needs a good lawyer. On October 26, Anthony Fazio Sr., Anthony Fazio Jr. and John Fazio Jr. were 
A union normally is about the last place anyone would look to find someone pressuring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to more aggressively scrutinize union financial reporting. Yet a member of a public employee local in Maryland is doing just that. And he's gone to court, too. Meet Chris Mosquera, a member of Local 1994 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), which represents municipal and county government workers in suburban Montgomery County, Md. This May, Mosquera 
When President Obama in March 2010 signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), the nation's most expensive social legislation in decades, 
On April 8, Patsy Fontenot, former international representative for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 790C, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to one year of probation for embezzling $6,943.15 from the Lena, Miss.-based union during November 2002-March 2006. She also was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Fontenot pled guilty on January 20. The guilty plea and sentencing follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
On December 2, Dale Holifield, formerly financial secretary-treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 782C, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to one count of embezzling $7,468.19 from the Pearl, Miss.-based union. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.
