Miami Fontainebleau Sues Union, Health Fund After Virus Layoffs

Miami’s Fontainebleau Hotel filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court accusing a health fund covering its unionized workforce of improperly demanding millions of dollars in contributions on behalf of workers laid off in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis.

Fontainebleau Florida Hotel LLC accuses the South Florida Hotel and Culinary Employees Welfare Fund, along with labor union UNITE HERE Local 355, of trying to collect as much as $5.5 million in health plan contributions tied to the 1,077 UNITE HERE workers laid off by the hotel in March. Fontainebleau says this demand is “contrary to the requirements” of its ...