JOINT ADMIN. COMM., PLUMB., DETROIT v. WASH. GROUP

No. 08-1271.

561 F.3d 447 (2009)

JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PLUMBING AND PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY IN THE DETROIT AREA, Plumbers Local No. 98 Apprenticeship Fund and Pipefitters Local No. 636 Insurance Fund, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WASHINGTON GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: April 1, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Ronald Scott Lederman, Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellants. Charles C. Jackson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Ronald Scott Lederman, Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellants. Charles C. Jackson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee.

Before: SUHRHEINRICH, BATCHELDER and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

When an employer signs a collective bargaining agreement, it assumes certain obligations to its employees. At issue in this case are the scope of obligations that a general contractor assumes in signing a national collective bargaining agreement that incorporates — in part — two local collective bargaining agreements designed to provide fringe benefits to independent contractors working on the general contractor...

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