Hilley v. General Motors Corp.

MONROE, Judge.

Jerry Hilley and certain other employees of two General Motors plants in Alabama, those being the Delphi-Harrison radiator plant in Tuscaloosa and the Delphi-Saginaw steering plant in Athens, were laid off because of decreased productivity at the Delphi chassis plant in Dayton, Ohio (“Delphi-Dayton”). The Dayton plant’s productivity decreased because of a strike by members of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Workers (“UAW”) Local 696 in Dayton. Hilley and other claimants applied to the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) for…