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Union sues National Grid, says pay overdue

National Grid workers assess roads that remain completely

Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | National Grid workers assess roads that remain completely blocked in Lattingtown so LIPA will be able to access power lines in the area. (Nov. 2, 2012)

A union official representing 2,600 electric and gas workers on Long Island has filed a lawsuit against National Grid, charging the company unjustly enriched itself by unlawfully withholding wages after a computer foul-up bungled thousands of employee paychecks.

The suit, filed last week in State Supreme Court in Suffolk, seeks to reclaim wages, overtime and expense payments lost after the...

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