Justice Department Files Lawsuit in Massachusetts Against Iron Workers Union and Pension Fund to Enforce the Employment Rights of Navy Reserve Member

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 29, 2013. The Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today the filing of a complaint alleging that the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Local 7 (the union) and Iron Workers District Council of New England Pension Fund (the Pension Fund) willfully violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by failing to credit U.S. Navy Reserve Member Thomas Shea with…