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- Title: Central States v. Safeway
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 06, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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Argued March 30, 2000 The Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund (Central States) is a well known multiemployer pension plan that serves members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters who work in the midwestern United States. For years, Safeway operated many grocery stores in Central States' coverage area. The employees in these stores were covered by collective bargaining agreements with the Teamsters. As part of those arrangements, Safeway was required to make contributions to the plan for more than 1500 employees. In the late 1980s, Safeway sold the divisions that employed most of the plan members. By 1989, Safeway owned only one store that employed plan participants. This was its Eau Claire, Wisconsin, store, where 16 plan members worked. This case concerns the payments Safeway must make to Central States as a result of these changes in its business--changes known as ""partial withdrawals"" from the pension fund. The district court concluded that Safeway owed approximately $1.9 million for a 1993 partial withdrawal assessment. We affirm. I.