Advocates for Labor and Progressive Institutions
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has issued a decision that will assist pension funds’ efforts to protect worker benefits and to address funding shortfalls, affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by WestRock RKT Company against the PACE Industry Union-Management Pension Fund.
An Administrative Law Judge of the National Labor Relations Board concluded that the Colorado Symphony Association (“CSA”) committed numerous unfair labor practices in its efforts to alter the terms on which its musicians are compensated for recording commercial CDs, videogames, and motion picture scores.
The United States Women’s National Team Players Association (“WNTPA”) and the U.S. Soccer Federation ratified a landmark five-year collective bargaining agreement that will provide significant pay increases and other improvements to working conditions for Players on the World-Cup-champion United States Women’s National Team (“WNT”).
An Arbitration Board ordered the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (“MARTA”) to restore over 300 paratransit employee positions and to reinstate employees it had terminated after MARTA had outsourced their jobs and terminated their employment with the Authority.
United States Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez appointed Douglas L. Greenfield, a longtime member of Bredhoff & Kaiser, to serve as a member of the Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council.
In a per curiam opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed an order compelling DynCorp International, LLC to arbitrate a dispute arising from the termination of a former employee working on a project DynCorp had been hired by the federal government to complete. District Lodge 4, Int’l Ass’n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. DynCorp. Int’l LLC, 651 F. App’x 148 (4th Cir. 2016).
On July 23, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers’ definition of “normal retirement age” as the earlier of age 65 or 5 years of service for purposes of its cash-balance pension plan.
On February 20, 2015, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants won dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the seniority integration of American Airlines and US Airways flight attendants as part of the 2013 merger of the two airlines.
In connection with the 2005 merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, an arbitrator established a seniority list that integrated the pilots of the two airlines.