In Re Hawaii Carpenters'' Trust Funds

Respondent-appellant Rovens Construction Corp. (hereafter Rovens) was the general contractor for the construction of the Molokai Shores Condominium Apartments, a development sponsored by the foregoing owners and completed in 1977. Parts of the carpentry required on the project were subcontracted to Coles Pacific Corporation, the predecessor of E.W.L. Construction, Inc. (hereafter EWL), who hired approximately twenty carpenters to perform the work during the latter part of 1976 and the early part of 1977. The terms and conditions under which EWL employed them were governed by the Master Agreement Covering Carpenters in the State of Hawaii (hereafter the collective bargaining agreement or the agreement), negotiated between Local 745 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and several employer associations and individual employers.