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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
By Robert Klein
 Employers who sign Collective Bargaining Agreements with labor unions may find it difficult to cancel those agreements. They also may find it difficult to defend themselves if the labor union sues to collect money owed for unpaid fringe benefit contributions.
In one particular case in point, the trustees of a labor union sued to collect unpaid fringe benefit contributions from an employer under a collective bargaining agreement. The issue in the case was whether the 1998-2003 Master Labor Agreement between the parties was either terminated effective June 1, 2005 or modified and replaced by the Labor Union with the 2003-2008 Master Labor Agreement where the Employer could not terminate the agreement before June 1, 2008.
The 1998-2003 Master Agreement contained the following language:
This Agreement shall be effective as of July 1, 1998 and shall remain in full force and effect to and including June 30, 2003, and continue in full force and effect from year to year thereafter unless either party to the agreement shall give written notice to the other of a desire to change, modify, or terminate the Agreement |
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