U.S. top court rules for employer in retiree benefits fight
Source: REUTERS
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a company that amended a collective bargaining agreement to force retirees to pay toward healthcare costs, throwing out a lower-court ruling that favored the former employees who objected to the change.
On a unanimous vote, the nine-member court handed a win to M&G Polymers USA, a subsidiary of Italy-based chemical company Mossi & Ghisolfi International, by sending the case back for further proceedings in the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Nearly 500 plaintiffs from Ohio who had worked at the M&G polyester plant in Apple Grove, West Virginia, sued in 2006 when the company said retirees would be required to contribute to their healthcare costs.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/us-usa-court-retirees-idUSKBN0KZ1UY20150126
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They are an embarassment to their profession and at least 5 of them are total political hacks.
forming any sort of opinion about a Supreme Court decision from headlines and a few sentences. It's often more complex than a sound bite can convey. I'll be the first to admit my brain just does not function on a "lawyer" setting. I frequently have to have such things explicitly spelled out to me. Slowly. 
