In a dispute over non-union laborers working on SEPTA projects nearly 20 years ago, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 has been awarded approximately $1.4 million in attorney fees from the resulting lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted IBEW 98′s request for attorney fees in the long-running case against the Fairfield Co., which the union investigated for its use of non-union laborers employed to do electrical work on five federally funded transit projects in Philadelphia.