Court rules Crystal union workers can get unemployment benefits
February 26, 2013 at 10:49 am in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK The North Dakota Supreme Court, in a 3-2 decision released this afternoon, has ruled that locked-out American Crystal Sugar union workers in North Dakota are eligible for unemployment benefits. Continue Reading
“The opinion released today holds that a state law barring workers from collecting unemployment compensation in cases of work stoppages due to a labor dispute only applies if the employees initiated the stoppage.”
Contract offer(s) were made. Contract offer(s) were rejected. By MAKING offer(s), (that everyone BUT the union recognize as more than fair), how could the employer be seen as “initiating” the work stoppage? Didn’t the rejection of those offers ultimately “initiate” the work stoppage?
Or…..has enough time passed that some folks forgot how this all went down?
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