Mackenzie v. Regional Principals Ass'n

KLEIN, J.S.C.

This case presents the issue of whether employee members of a union representing full-time lay teachers of church-operated secondary schools have a right to specific information concerning the operation and finances of their pension plan under Article 1, Paragraph 19 of the New Jersey Constitution. The court is also asked to decide whether the trustees of the pension plan have a fiduciary duty to inform plan members as to its financial status.

Plaintiff Laurel MacKenzie is the President, plaintiff Clare Gebhart the Vice President, and plaintiff Coleen Bradley the Recording…