Trucking Company Hit With $23 Million Pension Bill by NLRB Judge

A trucking company owes a union pension fund more than $23 million in a case that arose from events going back more than 15 years, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. must pay the Teamsters 206 Employers Trust $19.7 million in delinquent contributions and $3.9 million in liquidated damages plus interest, Administrative Law Judge Brian Gee held Friday.

The NLRB is normally restricted to make-whole remedies only, but it can order employers to pay damages and interest if the applicable collective bargaining agreement requires them, Gee said.

In 2012, the NLRB ruled that Oak ...