Here’s an update from an earlier story.
Remember the California worker who filed a
class-action lawsuit against Dignity
Health after SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan
failed to do anything to protect the retirement benefits of 15,000 SEIU-UHW
members?
Last April, the worker filed a federal lawsuit to force
Dignity to fix the massive underfunding of workers’ retirement benefits. The
lawsuit says that Dignity has shorted workers’ retirement funds by $1.2 billion…
and asks the court to force Dignity to make workers whole for lost benefits!
Here’s the latest.
Last month, the worker won the first round of the legal
battle in federal court! Here's what happened.
Dignity hired a team of lawyers and tried to knock the
lawsuit out of court. But on December 12, 2013, the judge issued a 13-page ruling
(see below) that delivered a smack-down to Dignity and handed a first-round
victory to workers! Now, the lawsuit can move forward to the next stage.
Where’s SEIU-UHW in all of this?
AWOL. Regan and his buddies have climbed so far in bed with
Dignity’s fatcat executives that they’d never think of actually fighting the company!
Here’s the judge’s ruling:
