UFCW Boss Wins Lawsuit … Against UFCW

From the Grand Rapids Press:

GRAND RAPIDS — Charles Ardingo, a longtime union organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, has won an $819,614 award in a jury trial against the union.

In a case filed in December 2004, Ardingo claimed former union president Robert Potter and the UFCW illegally fired him for cooperating with a federal investigation into union finances and for failing to pay enough into a union legal defense fund. A related case is working its way to trial, possibly this fall, for Michael McMillan, who for 24 years was elected recorder for Local 951.


Sweet! One union boss gets to sue another union boss, and it’s members that pick up the tab!

Also, you may recognize Local 951 from such stories as Union Bosses Are Overpaid.

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