Nat'l Elec. Indus. Fund v. Bethlehem Steel Corp

In Nat'l Elec. Indus. Fund v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 296 Md. 541, 463 A.2d 858 (1983), Mid-States, a subcontractor, had entered into a collective bargaining agreement with its employees. As Judge Rodowsky pointed out, in a collective bargaining situation, "there are individual contracts of hire between Mid-States and electrical workers it employed." Bethlehem Steel, 296 Md. at 546. He went on to say: Although the collective bargaining agreement is not a contract for work at Bethlehem, employees of Mid-States were directed, as part of their individual contracts, to perform their work for Mid-States at Bethlehem. Accordingly, each electrical worker employed by Mid-States at Bethlehem was a subcontractor as defined in the Act, because each had a contract with someone, other than the owner, for doing work for or about the "building." Bethlehem Steel, 296 Md. at 547-48.