Case: Health Care & Benefits/Benefit Contributions (9th Cir.)

The Ninth Circuit denied Delta Sandblasting Co.'s petition for review of a National Labor Relations Board order finding that it committed an unfair labor practice when it decreased its employees’ hourly pension contribution rate to the Pacific Coast Shipyards Pension Fund without first notifying or bargaining with their union. The court found that substantial evidence supported the board’s rejection of Delta’s claim that the Labor Management Relations Act prevented it from making pension contributions to the fund according to the rates contained within a schedule incorporated into the collective bargaining agreement between Delta and the union. And the court agreed ...