Mealey's (January 25, 2021, 1:08 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 22 affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a former employee’s suit against his employer and labor union employees after determining that the former employee’s addition of claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act does not save the former employee’s suit from being barred under res judicata because the ERISA claimsarise from the same facts as the claims alleged in a prior suit filed against the same parties....