Hugo Neuffer v. Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union of America

The majority holds that a retirement pension which vested on appellant’s retirement in 1952 is subject to cancellation unilaterally by the employer for which appellant had worked for nearly 20 years. To reach this result the majority opinion construes the contract most strictly against the employee when the law requires we construe it strictly against the *674employer who seeks to exact the forfeiture.

In 1952 in response to appellant’s application for retirement the union president advised him ‘you have reached the age that grants you a vested interest in the Employees’ Pension Plan” under which…