Legal Opinion
Chicago District Council of Carpenters Pension Fund v. Reinke Insulation Company and K. Reinke, Jr., & Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 17, 2003No. 03-1489PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A collective bargaining agreement to which Reinke Insulation subscribed required it to contribute to pension and welfare funds in proportion to the number of compensable hours the carpenters who installed the insulation had worked. In 2001 the funds conducted an audit and concluded that Reinke owed about $175,000, most of which was attributable to the firm’s failure to remit contributions based on the carpenters’ travel time. Workers who blow loose insulation into the space between walls are paid on a portal-to-portal basis, and the auditor did not find fault with…
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