Librado Arreola

Partner

Librado has been practicing law since 1990. Librado worked for nine years at the National Labor Relations Board, Chicago Regional office, and was a Trial Specialist. He serves as counsel to several unions and to a number of multiemployer ERISA benefit funds, including pension, welfare, and training and apprenticeship funds, in a variety of industries. He currently serves as the General Counsel to the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, AFL-CIO, located in Washington, DC.

His practice focuses on counseling unions regarding governmental compliance issues, internal union governance, enforcement of collective bargaining agreements, including all aspects of NLRB representation, and unfair labor practice work and labor arbitration, as well as negotiating collective bargaining agreements and defending the " duty of fair representation" lawsuits and NLRB charges.

In the context of representing ERISA multiemployer funds, Librado provides counsel regarding governmental compliance issues, including advising Trust Funds on Department of Labor investigations, collection litigation, drafting procedures for collecting delinquent employer contributions, drafting Summary Plan Descriptions, revising plan documents, plan interpretation issues, advising Trust Funds on benefit eligibility and related issues, subrogation issues, providing legal advice at Trustee meetings, counseling Fund Administrators and staff, advising relevant parties of their fiduciary duties, advising clients of recent pertinent legislation, defending benefit funds in benefit eligibility litigation and negotiating and preparing contracts with service providers.

Librado is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois. He has spoken on items of interest concerning labor and employee benefits law and has delivered presentations at both the local and national levels concerning, among other issues, the duty of fair representation, practice before the NLRB, and representing immigrant workers. He has also appeared in the federal and state courts in Illinois, and before the Illinois Appellate Court. Librado is fluent in Spanish.

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Practice Strengths

Multiemployer ERISA Benefit Plans

Litigation (Labor and ERISA)

Union Governance

NLRB Practice

Labor Arbitration

Collective Bargaining Negotiations

Admissions

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U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Bankruptcy Court

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Education

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Education

J.D., Northeastern University School of Law – Boston, MA

B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Notable Cases

Bricklayers Local 21 v. Banner Restoration, Inc., 385 F.3d 761 (7th Cir. 2004). The Court held that the company was responsible for making ERISA contribution payments to the benefit funds because the contractor's course of conduct in adhering to the terms of the CBA demonstrated its assent to the CBA, despite the lack of a signed CBA.

Dennis West v. Local 710 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Pension Plan, 3-05-CV-56 (SD Iowa, June 15, 2007). The Court held that the plaintiff was not entitled to additional benefit payments as claimed by the plaintiff.

Soft Drink Industry Local 744 Pension Fund v. Royal Crown Bottling Co., 08 C 502 (ND Ill. Feb. 9, 2009). The Court held that the plaintiff's demand to arbitrate a withdrawal liability assessment was improper.

Line Construction Benefit Fund v. Allied Electrical Contractors, Inc., 591 F.3d 576 (7th Cir. 2010). The Appellate Court held that the company was responsible for making ERISA contribution payments to the benefit funds because the contractor's course of conduct in adhering to the terms of the CBA demonstrated its assent to the CBA, despite the lack of a signed CBA.

Maltese v. National Roofing Industry Pension Plan, 5:16-CV-11 (ND WV 2016). The Court held that the defendant's pension fund correctly suspended benefit payments to the plaintiff.

Bonczek v. Board of Trustees of National Roofing Industry Pension Plan, 14-cv-3768 (Minn. 2016), appeal denied Bonczek v. Board of Trustees of National Roofing Industry Pension Plan, 16-3474 (4th Cir. 2017). The Court held that the plaintiff was not entitled to additional benefit payments.

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