Legal Question in Employment Law in California

suing the union

I work for a company and am in a union. Myself and a few others recently filed with a lawyer on the company making us work through our lunches and breaks and not providing us with meal periods on a 6 hr shift. Our lawyer just won summary judgment an the company now wants to settle with plaintiffs and class. The thing is, that we complained to our union chairman and president about this but they ignored us, so we decided to sue wages. Can we sue the union for allowing this to happen to us? For Breach of Contract, failure to represent even after we sued the company? We feel the union should be representing us instead they are union company. Our local chairman hangs out with management all the time. Anytime someone gets in trouble he is always their to have the employee to sign a waiver.He never fights for us and we are getting sick of this. We actually want them decertified if we could. We pay them 61 dollars a month. Partime people also . that is a rip off. Anything we can do? This will be a class action since their are over 600 people who also agree.


Asked on 9/29/08, 10:55 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
George Moschopoulos The Law Office of George Moschopoulos

Re: suing the union

If you already have a lawyer, especially one who has just won a summary judgment on the labor code violations, talk to him about the situtaion. He will be much better equipped to advise you than anyone here.

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Answered on 10/05/08, 2:07 am


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