Dunlop v. Tremayne

This is a monothetie case which poses the question whether payments made by an employer, pursuant *428to an industrywide collective bargaining agreement, into independent trust funds for medical, welfare, and retirement benefits constitute “wages” as that word is used in section 1204 of the Code of Civil Procedure.1

Cal-Paeific Downey, the employer, entered into collective bargaining contracts with unions representing its employees, as part of an industrywide collective bargaining agreement in the lumber industry in Southern California. The agreements obligated the employers to make monthly…