Legal Opinion
Bonneau v. Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union 51 Pension Trust Fund Ex Rel. Bolton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 15, 2013No. 13-1515PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This is a dispute between a group of now-retired union employees over certain “banked hour” benefits which their union Pension Trust wants to eliminate, and the Trust, which is in distress and trying to find sources of funding to meet its obligations to its larger group of plan participants. The Trustees agreed not to impose the cuts until a court had finally determined whether these cuts, effectuated through Plan Amendment Nine, violated the anti-cutback provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., which protects…
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