Mounties to investigate union books
Mar, 05 2008 - 10:10 PM
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - The RCMP's Commercial Crimes Section has been asked to investigate the union representing 75-hundred Vancouver-area hotel workers. This, after an internal audit of Unite Here-Local 40 determined financial records were never filed for both 2006 and 2007.
Katherine Wunderlich, who's been a member of the union since 1976, says she suspected something was wrong more than four years ago and she feels betrayed by union leaders, "People in the hotel industry, we clean toilets for a living. We serve coffee to people. We are the lowest-paid industry in this Province. If somebody has taken money illegally from the union, the police should get involved."
In a report released to union officers last month, the Chief Auditor for Local 40, Chester S. Modzelewski says the missing financial records should have been reported every month.
Union President Jim Pearson has not returned calls from CKNW.
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