Legal Opinion
Sheet Metal Workers' Local 28 of New Jersey Welfare Fund v. Gallagher
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 3, 1992No. 91-5056PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from a dispute between two labor unions over the right to control a welfare fund and a pension fund. One union, an independent local, seceded from the other, an international union, and asserted control over the local’s pension and welfare funds, which had previously been controlled by the international. After the secession, a subgroup within the independent returned to membership in locals affiliated with the international. The members of this subgroup believed that the trustees of the pension and welfare funds had breached their…
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- Sheet Metal Workers' Local 28 of New Jersey Welfare Fund Arthur Moore William Viotle Joseph Demark Frank Cregan Andy Mihal Richard Domanico Sheet Metal Workers' Local 20 of New Jersey Welfare Fund Ralph A. Quackenbush Gilbert Nelson Edward S. Burke Michael Ryan Brian Deegan Richard Bonner Michael Losito Arthur Ford Henry Pfeifer June R. Pfeifer Thomas Welch John Sirochman, Sr. Milton Kubu John Rupshis George Pace, Sr. Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Local 28 Sheet Metal Workers' International Association Local 27 William G. Sullivan Ronald Boyle Carol Ann Boyle v. Edward Gallagher, Trustee Cornelius P. Sharkey, Jr., Trustee Bernard Yamakaitis, Trustee Harry Harris, Trustee Campbell Johnstone, Trustee Eugene Morrison, Trustee Sheet Metal Workers' Local Union 22 of New Jersey Welfare Fund. Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 28 Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 27 Edward J. Carlough, Trustee Robert T. Stringer, Trustee C.T. Roff, Trustee Cavet Snyder, Trustee Salvatore J. Cardella Rocco Cassio Thomas Cofield Francis Daughenti Robert Davis Ernest E. Finizio Arthur P. Ford Lawrence A. Fredericks Ronald J. Gehring Ronald N. Gedman Herbert Gunsaules Matthew M. Hirsh John Hyland Milton J. Kubu George J. Martin Robert J. Miller June Nolan Frederick Rotz George E. Schwerdt John P. Sirochman Robert J. Smith Henry Zaleski Paul Vella v. Edward Gallagher, Trustee Cornelius P. Sharkey, Jr., Trustee Bernard Yamakaitis, Trustee Harry Harris, Trustee Campbell Johnstone, Trustee Eugene Morrison, Trustee Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 22 of New Jersey Pension FundCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1992