March 24, 2023
A United Food and Commercial Workers local did not fail its duty to fairly represent its members when pension benefits for recent hires were cut from a new collective bargaining agreement, the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday, dismissing grocery workers' claims that the union misled them.
January 19, 2022
A Minnesota federal judge tossed a suit alleging that a United Food and Commercial Workers local misled grocery workers about eliminating pension benefits while negotiating a new labor contract, saying the workers did not show that the contract would not have been ratified if they'd known of the cuts beforehand.
February 02, 2021
A Minnesota federal judge declined Tuesday to certify a class in a grocery worker's suit alleging a United Food and Commercial Workers local breached its duty of fair representation by bargaining away a pension benefit, saying the record shows too much intraclass conflict.