Mtr. of Sierant (Catherwood-Gen. Mills)

Chief Judge Fuld.

The Legislature has provided, in subdivision 1 of section 592 of the Labor Law, that employees who lose their employment because of a strike will not be paid unemployment benefits for a period of seven weeks, even though they took no part in that strike, if it occurred in the “ establishment ” in which they worked. Insofar as pertinent, subdivision 1 provides:

" The accumulation of benefit rights by a claimant shall be suspended during a period of seven consecutive weeks beginning with the day after he lost his employment because of a strike, lockout, or other industrial…