On November 5, Douglas Dye, former unit chairman of United Auto Workers Local 12, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to one year of probation for embezzling funds from the Toledo union and another year of probation for falsifying union records to conceal the thefts. He also was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and a $125 special assessment on top of the $8,490 in restitution he already paid. Dye had pleaded guilty in July to embezzling $8,443 in union assets and concealment after being indicted in January. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.