MEMORANDUM & ORDER Petitioner Gerald R. Finkel, chairman of the Joint Industry Board of the Electrical Industry, filed the above-captioned petition on July 21, 2022, to confirm an arbitration award against Respondent J&H Electrical Contracting, Inc. (Pet. to Confirm Arb. Award (“Pet.”), Docket Entry No. 1; Pet’r's Mem. in Supp. of Pet. (“Pet’r's Mem.”), Docket Entry No. 4.) Petitioner alleges that Respondent failed to remit required contributions to certain employee benefit plans pursuant to collective bargaining agreements, section 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), as amended, 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(3), and section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §185. (Pet. 1.) On August 17, 2022, the Court granted Petitioner’s request to deem the petition unopposed. (Order dated Aug. 17, 2022; Pet’r's Letter dated Aug. 16, 2022, Docket Entry No. 11.) For the reasons set forth below, the Court grants Petitioner’s motion to confirm the arbitration award in the amount of $117,381.14, plus interest accrued until entry of judgment, and awards Petitioner $625 in attorneys’ fees and $477.57 in costs for a total damages award of $118,483.71 plus accrued interest. I. Background Petitioner is the chairman of the Joint Industry Board (the “JIB”) located in Flushing, New York. (Pet. 4.) The JIB is “the administrator of various employee benefit multi-employer plans [including ERISA Plans,1] established and maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement between Local Union No. 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers” (the “Union”), the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and certain other employers and employer associations. (Id.) “Per the…collective bargaining agreement, the JIB receives directly from each signatory employer a weekly remittance consisting of contributions to each of the ERISA Plans, except the DSP,[2] as well as a Union assessment collected by the signatory employer from each Union member employed (the “Union Assessment”).3 (Id. 6.) On May 15, 2020, the Union notified Petitioner by letter that Respondent had agreed to the terms of the New York City Housing Authority’s Project Labor Agreement (the “NYCHA PLA”). (Id.
14, 17; see also Union’s May 2020 Letter, annexed to Pet. as Ex. A, Docket Entry No. 1-1; NYCHA PLA 3-4, Schedule A, annexed to Pet. as Ex. B, Docket Entry No. 1-2.) Pursuant to the NYCHA PLA, Respondent agreed to be bound to the collective bargaining agreement among (1) the Union, (2) the New York Electrical Contractors’ Association, Inc. and (3) the Association of Electrical Contractors, Inc., covering the periods from April 10, 2019 through April 13, 2022 and April 13, 2022 through April 9, 2025 (the “CBAs”). (Pet.
