Summary...unions are rampantly corrupt, and this is just instances involving unions that represent nurses. This took about 15 minutes to compile.
"On November 23, 2005, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, an information was filed against Rosemary Zwetkof Ryan, former Treasurer for the
Jersey Nurses Economic Security Organization, Local 717, charging her with making materially false entries in union financial records in order to conceal her embezzlement of union funds. The information follows an investigation by the OLMS Philadelphia District Office.
On March 3, 2005, in the Court of Common Pleas, Franklin County (Ohio), an indictment was filed against Aunalie Parsons,
former employee of the Ohio Nurses Association, charging her with one count of theft of union funds in an amount more than $500, but less than $5,000. In addition, Parsons was charged with two counts of forgery.
On December 15, 2004, in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Renee Hallman,
former project specialist for the District of Columbia Nurses Association, was sentenced to four years probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $7,404.51. On October 1, 2004, Hallman pled guilty to embezzling $9,572.89 in union funds...
On June 21, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Anna May Ervolino,
former officer of the Buffalo and Western New York Hospital and Nursing Home Council and Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 4 and their associated funds, was sentenced to one year probation and 150 hours of community service and was fined $5,000. She had pled guilty on March 22, 2002 to one count of willful and unlawful failing to disclose for a benefit plan annual report a payment to a party in interest. She had previously made restitution of $144,470.79 to the unions and the funds.
On February 25, 2002, in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, Judy Domning,
former executive director of the Minnesota Licensed Practical Nurses Association and former executive director of the Technical Employees Association of Minnesota, was convicted of making a false statement by making false entries in union records. She was sentenced to two years probation and barred from employment by unions "for life." She had pled guilty on August 24, 2001, and had previously made restitution of $18,772.
The sentence was a downward departure for her substantial assistance in the prosecution of Elliot Cohn who had pled guilty to mail fraud on March 8, 2001.
On February 1, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Sharon K. Schmenk,
former treasurer of Lima Memorial Professional Nurses Association, was sentenced to three years probation, the first six months to be spent in home confinement with an ankle monitor at a cost of $4.95 a day paid by her, and she was ordered to make full restitution. She had pled guilty on October 5, 2001, to embezzling $19,170 in union funds following an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office.
CFO of New York State Association Indicted for Embezzlement
John T. Daley says his judgment was impaired by Paxil. His ex-employer wishes he could have taken truth serum instead. Daley,
former chief financial officer of the New York State Nurses Association, was charged by an Albany County, N.Y. court with embezzling more than $1.2 million from the union. Daley, 46, was fired from his job with the Albany-based organization, which represents about 34,000 nurses in New York and New Jersey, when an internal investigation discovered a typewriter ribbon used to make out checks held a history of his transactions. He had been arrested in June.
OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES (OPEIU)
Pennsylvania Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
On October 23, Sally Ann Hollis, former bookkeeper for Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 112, pled guilty in federal court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to one count of embezzling over $20,000 in union funds. She had been indicted in September.
The Harrisburg, Pa.-based union represents nurses and other employees at various Pennsylvania hospitals.
NURSES (CRONA)
Court Overturns $2,500 Union Fine against Northern California Nurse
Ending a year-long union legal assault and harassment campaign against a nurse who refused to abandon her critically ill patients during a strike at Stanford Hosp., the Superior Court of Cal., County of San Mateo, has dismissed a union-levied $2,500 fine. The Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) union levied the retaliatory $2,500 fine on nurse Barbara Williams when she would not walk off the job in a June 2000 strike. With the help of Nat'l Right to Work Legal Def. Fdn. attorneys, Williams beat the fine by arguing that it was arbitrarily assessed, and the union's own bylaws did not allow it.
http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_594.php
Toledo, OH (February 6, 2007) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a formal complaint and agreed to prosecute the United Auto Workers (UAW) union for a campaign of harassment and intimidation aimed at nurses seeking an election to vote the union out at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center."
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