Legal Opinion
Harold West, Trustees of the Southern Labor Union Welfare Fund and Pension Fund v. James Butler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 15, 1980No. 78-1081PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.
The issue before the court on this appeal is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 1 (hereinafter cited as ERISA) allows pension fund trustees to file civil actions to enjoin secondary picketing. We hold it does not and affirm the district court’s order dismissing the suit.
I
The plaintiffs-appellants are trustees of the Southern Labor Union (the union or SLU) Welfare and Pension funds. The funds were created pursuant to § 302(c) of the Taft-Hartley Act, 29 U.S.C. § 186(c), to receive contractually required pension and welfare contributions…
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