INTERNATIONAL UNION OF UNITED AUTOMOBILE v. ROCKFORD POWERTRAIN

No. 03-1855.

350 F.3d 698 (2003)

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, U.A.W. and its Local 803, Joseph Wadzinski and Elton Kopplin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ROCKFORD POWERTRAIN, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 3, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerrod Olszewski, Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein & Johnson, Chicago, IL, Stanley Eisenstein, (argued), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Anthony J. Crement (argued), Franczek Sullivan, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, EASTERBROOK and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Chief Judge.

This is a class action on behalf of retired employees and surviving spouses of retired employees of Rockford Powertrain, Inc. ("RPI"). They claim that RPI promised to provide its retirees and their surviving spouses with health and life insurance benefits for the duration of their lives, and that RPI's unilateral reduction, and later termination, of those benefits violated the terms of a collective bargaining...

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