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The Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $72.5 million to thousands of women to settle a class action action sex-discrimination lawsuit. The payout, revealed in documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, is the maximum allowed under a settlement agreement that won preliminary approval from a federal judge last year.

On October 6, 2005, a U.S. District Court judge refused to temporarily freeze funds the teachers union seized from teachers statewide without due process in order to fight Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and several measures on the November 8 special-election ballot. Since September 30, 2005, the California Teachers Association "CTA" has been automatically collecting an additional $60 a year in dues from all 335,000 teachers and college professors statewide. Six teachers, represented by the National Right to Work Legal Foundation, filed a class-action lawsuit against the union in late August, citing a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that says all union members must be notified of how their forced union dues are spent and be given a chance to prevent their money being spent for purposes other than collective bargaining.

The class has been certified in an action filed against Kmart Corporation board members and executives on behalf of current and former Kmart employees who had more than $100 million of the discount chain's stock in their 401(k) retirement plans when the company went bankrupt. The action alleges that the defendants violated the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act by abrogating their fiduciary duties to plan participants. Persons eligible to take part in the action should contact attorneys for the class.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District Court of Florida against Gemcopainting, Inc. The case involves violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A class action has been filed against The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc., on behalf of current and former employees of A&P, The Food Emporium, and Waldbaum’s, who allege that the supermarket chains fail to pay them overtime wages, and deleted hours actually worked from time records, in violation of New York labor law.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Middle District Court of Florida against Lowe's Companies, Inc., a North Carolina based home improvement store with 1,000 stores in 45 states, for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Class members seek an order enjoining the Company from continuing their current pay policies, compensatory damages, attorney's fees, interest and costs.

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