Kroger Subsidiary Must Pay Union Dues it Stopped Collecting

A Kroger Co. subsidiary must pay the union dues that the company would have collected from workers’ paychecks and transferred to their union if it hadn’t unlawfully stopped doing so, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

Kroger Texas LP is liable for the dues under a retroactive application of the NLRB’s 2022 decision in Valley Hospital Medical Center, which stripped employers’ right to stop such collections after the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement, Administrative Law Judge Sharon Levinson Steckler held Friday.

Steckler prohibited Kroger from trying to recoup the dues it owes to a United Food ...