Charles Little

Court Upholds DOL Reporting Requirements for Union Lawyers

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 00:00

What union lawyers say to their clients in private is off the record.  But how much they bill them, and for what services, is a different story.  That was the view conveyed on May 5 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in a case that grew out of the convictions nearly a half-decade ago of several key members of the United Transportation Union (UTU).  In the new case, Warshauer v. Chao, the court ruled that the union’s designated legal counsel must file an “LM-10” employer financial report with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).  As an employer, the counsel provides money or other things of value to the union, and thus is subject to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, also known as LMRDA or the Landrum-Griffin Act.  In addition to filing an LM-10, this lawyer has other rules to play by.

Four Ex-UTU Officials Sentenced for Racketeering

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 07/19/2004 - 00:00

Byron Boyd and Charles A. Little, both frmr. presidents of the United Transportation Union (UTU), were each sentenced to prison terms on July 9, and ordered to forfeit to the United States a total of $200,000 in racketeering activity proceeds.  U.S. Dist. Judge Sim Lake (S.D. TX, Reagan) sentenced Boyd and Little to each serve a 2 year term of imprisonment, without parole, and ordered each to forfeit to the United States $100,000 in racketeering proceeds. Both men were also fined $10,000 each.

 

Ex-Intl. President Pleads Guilty to Racketeering

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 02/02/2004 - 01:00

Charles Little, frmr. Intl. President of the United Transportation Union (UTU), pled guilty on Jan. 23 to labor racketeering conspiracy.  During his rearraignment before U. S. Dist. Judge Sim Lake (S.D. TX, Reagan), Little admitted to using his position as UTU president to solicit and collect cash payments and other things of value, and direct other union officials to do the same, from attorneys doing business with the union beginning with his campaign for president in 1994, ending with his retirement from the union in Feb. 2001.

 

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