Opinion ID: 748190
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Heading Rank: 1

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Text: 2 Plaintiffs-appellants are trustees of the National Leadburners Health and Welfare Fund and the National Leadburners Pension Fund as well as the Funds themselves (collectively Funds or appellants). They brought suit to enforce contributions that they contend are owed to the Funds under the terms of collective bargaining agreements. The Funds are multi-employer plans established pursuant to collective bargaining agreements negotiated between Lead Burners Local Union No. 153 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (Local 153 or the union) and the National Lead Burning Association (NLBA). 3 The union is a labor organization representing employees in the lead burning line of work. The defendant-appellee, O.G. Kelley & Company, Inc. (O.G. Kelley), is a Tennessee company with employees who perform lead burning work. The NLBA is a multi-employer association whose members are employers engaged in lead burning work throughout the country. The NLBA negotiates collective bargaining agreements with the union on behalf of its member employers. The NLBA and the union have been parties to collective bargaining agreements for several years. 4 The appellants alleged in their complaint that O.G. Kelley failed to make contributions to employee benefit trust funds as required by collective bargaining agreements to which the appellants allege O.G. Kelley is bound. The appellants thus alleged that O.G. Kelley breached the collective bargaining agreements.