Ancheta v. Daly

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court reversing decisions of the commissioner and the appeal tribunal of the Employment Security Department which had disqualified claimants for unemployment compensation benefits on the ground their unemployment was due “to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute . . .” RCW 50.20:090.

In the summer of 1965 a coast-wide strike occurred involving about 75 shipyards and the Western Regional Machinists’ Union. On the afternoon of July 2, 1965, members of Local 79 of the Machinists’ Union, employed at Foss Launch and Tug Company,…