The Sixth Circuit held that GM was not obligated to contribute $450 million to fund retiree health benefits for UAW members because the most recent contract between the UAW and GM extinguished GM’s former obligation to contribute. In response to earlier litigation between the UAW against GM to recover retiree health benefits and a bankruptcy
Retiree Benefits
Supreme Court Announces “Wipe-Out” of Yard-Man Presumption in Advance of Storm
By Howard Shapiro & Joseph Clark on
With storm clouds threatening in the northeast, the Supreme Court cast a ray of sunlight for employers today by rejecting the use of a problematic inference in adjudicating claims for retiree benefits brought pursuant to collective bargaining agreements.