BLET Secretary-Treasurer in West Virginia Pleads Guilty to Theft

On June 12, Nathan McCallister, former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 101, pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court of Summers County, West Virginia to one count of embezzlement in an amount of more than $1,000 from the Hinton, W.Va. union. McCallister had been charged in March following an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.