For three years, stealing came all too easy to Dorothy McBride. Now her life is going to get a lot more difficult. Last Thursday, January 28, McBride, former president of Communications Workers of America Local 81427, was charged in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey with embezzling a combined sum of around […]
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
CWA Houston Local Employees Sentenced for Embezzlement
Beverly Davis and Evelyn Smith stole together. And now they’ve been sentenced together. On July 21, Davis and Smith, each a former employee of Communications Workers of America Local 6222, were sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to three years of probation for their roles in an embezzlement scheme that […]
West Virginia CWA Secretary Sentenced for Concealing Embezzlement
On June 2, Eric Childress, former secretary-treasurer of Communications Workers of America Local 2276, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia to five years of probation, and ordered to pay $30,611 in restitution and a $25 special assessment, for making a false entry in the financial records of the […]
Two Employees of Houston CWA Local Plead Guilty to Thefts
Beverly Davis and Evelyn Smith treated their union like a personal ATM machine. Eventually, their money supply ran out. On December 13, 2019, Davis and Smith, each an office employee of Communications Workers of America Local 6222, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to their roles in an embezzlement […]
NLRB Restores Employer Right to Restrict Employee Email Organizing
An employer’s email system is as much private property as its computer equipment or real estate. The National Labor Relations Board once again, if belatedly, has affirmed this fact. On December 16, the board in Caesars Entertainment voted 3-1 to reestablish the right of an employer to restrict employee use of company email and other […]
Former CWA President in Connecticut Sentenced for Embezzlement
On November 7, Thomas Popillo, former president of Communications Workers of America Local 81266, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to three years of probation, including six months of home confinement, for embezzling $37,568.68 in funds from the Newington-based union. He also was ordered to pay full restitution and a […]
Mississippi CWA President Sentenced for Embezzlement
The consequences of theft were far more expensive than Danny Woodcock had anticipated. On August 29, Woodcock, ex-president of Communications Workers of America Local 83770, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi to 46 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay […]
CWA Local Secretary-Treasurer in West Virginia Indicted
On September 4, Eric Childress, former secretary-treasurer of Communications Workers of America Local 2276, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on one count of embezzlement of funds in the sum of $2,619 from the Bluefield, W.Va.-based union. The charge follows a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office […]
CWA President in Connecticut Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Thomas Popillo is a good example of what happens to a union when one person has total control over its finances. On August 7, Popillo, former president of Communications Workers of America Local 81266, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to one count of embezzlement in the amount of $37,568.68 […]
CWA Secretary-Treasurer in Indiana Pleads Guilty; Sentenced
On August 20, Diana Brown, ex-financial secretary of Communications Workers of America Local 84807, pleaded guilty in Clark County, Indiana Circuit Court to 10 counts of forgery against the Jeffersonville, Ind. (near Louisville, Ky.) union. She then was sentenced to eight years in jail (six of those years suspended) and six years of probation. Brown […]