On August 29, Linda Holden, former financial secretary-treasurer for Local 639 of the United Steelworkers of America, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to one count of embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $74,090. The guilty plea follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards. USWA Local 639 previously had been affiliated with the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers (PACE), where it was known as Local 6-639. The change in affiliation is due to a merger, approved in April 2005, of the Steelworkers and PACE. The new umbrella organization is known as the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union. (OLMS, 9/25/06).
Former Local Business Agent in Southern Minnesota Charged
