Massachusetts Carpenters Central Collection Agency v. Belmont Concrete Corp.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Within a year of signing a collective bargaining agreement with the Massachusetts Carpenters Union, the Belmont Concrete Corporation went out of business. Under that agreement, Belmont was obligated to pay into Union employee benefit funds for the benefit of its workers. 1 Another concrete company, Algar Construction Corporation (owned and managed from the same location by members of the same families as Belmont) employed many of Belmont’s employees, used some of Belmont’s equipment, and worked on contracts for the same company with which Belmont had worked. When Belmont…