A grocery worker failed in his challenge to a labor contract based on an allegation that the union deliberately concealed the elimination of a retirement benefit to ensure ratification, a federal appeals court ruled, because the information wouldn’t have changed the outcome.
Members of a United Food and Commercial Workers local approved the agreement the union bargained with SuperValu Cub Foods and other independent grocers located in the Minneapolis area by a 119-vote margin. Yet only nine members said information about the changed retirement benefit would have changed their vote, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said ...