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Last Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit <\/span>reversed a district court\u2019s decision<\/a><\/span> upholding an arbitration award requiring an employer to pay more than $2.3 million in withdrawal liability payments to a multiemployer pension fund. The Seventh Circuit remanded the case to the district court with instructions to order the pension fund to repay the withdrawal liability it collected from Bulk Transport (\u201cBulk\u201d), a client of Conn Maciel Carey LLP.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>The long-running dispute centered around a contract Bulk landed in 2004 to haul commodities, work known as the \u201cLISCO work.\u201d Commodities hauling had previously been covered by a collective bargaining agreement with Local 142, the Steel Mill Addendum. However, in 2003 the parties had agreed to exclude commodities hauling from the Steel Mill Addendum, which from that point covered \u201cSteel Mill Operation Work only<\/u><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Bulk secured the LISCO work, it approached the union about negotiating a collective bargaining agreement to cover it, but Local 142 instead insisted that Bulk apply the Steel Mill Addendum to the LISCO work and threatened to strike if it did not. Although it objected that the Steel Mill Addendum did not cover such work, Bulk capitulated to the union\u2019s demand and made pension contributions for such work pursuant to the terms in the Steel Mill Addendum. Bulk eventually lost the LISCO work and almost seven years later, the pension fund demanded more than $2 million in withdrawal liability due to the decrease in contributions.<\/p>\n

Bulk disputed the fund\u2019s assessment, but paid the amounts demanded and moved to arbitration with the pension fund. Eventually, the arbitrator found that although the Steel Mill Addendum did not cover the LISCO work by its terms, Bulk had adopted the agreement by its conduct in making the payments. The district court agreed with the arbitrator\u2019s ruling and denied Bulk\u2019s request to vacate the arbitrator\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

Bulk appealed to the Seventh Circuit, where it continued to press its argument that the lack of a written agreement covering the LISCO work meant that its contributions could not be used as a basis for withdrawal liability. Bulk asserted that 29 U.S.C. \u00a7 186(c)(5)(B) requires a written agreement to specify \u201cthe detailed basis on which such [pension contributions] are to be made,\u201d and that because the Steel Mill Addendum specifically and explicitly excluded all work other than steel mill operation work, the LISCO work did not qualify. As it had before the arbitrator and district court, the pension fund again argued that Bulk had adopted the Steel Mill Addendum by its conduct.<\/p>\n

In Bulk Transport Corp. v. Teamsters Union No. 142 Pension Fund<\/em>, issued on March 22, 2024, the Seventh Circuit agreed with Bulk, stating that \u201cadoption by conduct does not change the substantive provisions\u201d of a written agreement, and that \u201cthe terms of pension contributions to multiemployer plans cannot be changed orally.\u201d Instead, \u201c[t]he precise terms must be in writing \u2013 and, having been reduced to writing, must be enforced without any consideration of equitable arguments.\u201d Indeed, because \u201cCongress made the writings conclusive\u201d through 29 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7186(c)(5)(B) and 29 U.S.C. \u00a7 1145, \u201cemployers and unions cannot opt out of those statutes orally or by their course of conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

As this left no basis for the fund\u2019s assessment of withdrawal liability, the Seventh Circuit remanded the case to the district court with instructions to order the pension fund to repay the amounts it had collected from Bulk.<\/p>\n

An employer faced with an assessment of withdrawal liability should ensure the assessment is based only on legitimate contributions required by the precise terms of a written agreement. If it is otherwise, the employer may have grounds to contest the withdrawal liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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