Stevens Engineers & Constructors, Inc. doesn’t owe withdrawal liability to the Iron Workers Local 17 Pension Fund because the work identified by the union did not fall with the jurisdiction of their previous collective bargaining agreement. The decision is a blow for the distressed Iron Workers pension fund, which is severely underfunded with a deficit…

Workers represented by the Laborers’ International union of North America had been getting job assignments involving forklifts through the Construction Employers Association. But, Operating Engineers Local 18 sought to get that work. The National Labor Relations Board twice said the Laborers should get the work and ultimately ordered the Operating Engineers – which had been…

Jurisdictional disputes occur when two or more unions make conflicting claims over which group is entitled to perform certain work. For example, many different unions are represented on a construction project and there may be a dispute about who is responsible for cleaning up the scrap at the end of the day. Members of the…