On February 27, Jeffrey Phillips, former financial secretary-treasurer of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 836, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine to one count of stealing and carrying away personal property in the sum of $57,610. The Kittery-based union represents employees of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Phillips had been indicted last October. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.