A Newark federal judge has given health-care union members a green light to pursue a claim against their union president for her award of $1.4 million in no-bid legal work to her live-in boyfriend.
The union members can proceed with the claim because they pleaded sufficient facts to show that their president violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act on the grounds of breach of fiduciary duty, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Dickson ruled July 11 in Fonti v. Health Professionals & Allied Employees, 13-4231. The union members raised the claim in an amended complaint filed Monday.
