On March 14, Donald Kister, former president of National Postal Mail Handlers Local 307 in Detroit, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to embezzling $4,137.35 in union funds during August 2006-October 2007. The Mail Handlers are an affiliate of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA). Kister had been indicted last September. The indictment and guilty plea follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
