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United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951

Grand Rapids, MI: (Aug-20-07) Charles Ardingo, a longtime union organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, filed a lawsuit against the union in December 2004, alleging that former union president Robert Potter and the United Food and Commercial Workers illegally fired him for cooperating with a federal investigation. The investigation dealt with union finances and the unions failing to pay enough into a union legal defense fund. A related case is working its way to trial, possibly this fall, for Michael McMillan, who for 24 years was elected recorder for Local 951. The trials are based at the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan, before Magistrate Judge Ellen Carmody.

In a settlement reached, the union agreed to pay Ardingo $819,614 following a jury decision. The award for damages in Ardingo's case far exceeds a potential $155,000 settlement reached in November 2005; that offer was rejected by Local 951's executive board. [GRAND RAPIDS PRESS: UNION RETALIATION]


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Published on Aug-21-07


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