Borngesser v. United Dairy Workers Pension Fund Committee

Plaintiff brought this suit for himself and 84 others similarly situated, as a class action. They had been milk route operators, employ ees, respectively, of several different Detroit milk distributors, and members of a dairy workers union. A collective bargaining agreement was entered into between the distributors and the union. It provided for a pension plan agreement to be financed by employer contributions of $10 per month for each employee. The pension plan was drafted, it was approved by the union and the commissioner of internal revenue and became operative. Under the plan, the pension…