On September 17, Mark Douglas, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1101, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to embezzling funds from the Arabi (near New Orleans) union. According to court records, during November 2011-January 2015 Douglas, now 72, a resident of New Orleans, had filed fraudulent claims for “lost time” reimbursement totaling $6,280.91. He had been charged this April with embezzling $7,078.35. AFGE Local 1101 represents employees of Domino Sugar Company. The plea follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.
