Case: Labor Relations/Wages (E.D. Va.)

A Virginia federal district court recommended granting the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry’s motion for partial default judgment under the Labor Management and Reporting Act against Mid-South Industrial regarding the enforcement of an arbitration award, finding that Mid-South violated the terms of the award — which found Mid-South in violation of the National Maintenance Agreement by failing to follow proper hiring procedures and pay required wages and fringe benefits to pipefitters on the Blue Oval Project — and awarded $38,452 in back wages and benefits to two identified employees, plus attorneys’ fees ...