In re the Claims of Goodman

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 29, 1997, which, inter alia, ruled that claimants were ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because they had a reasonable assurance of continued employment.

Claimants, 32 union members, worked in various nonprofessional capacities for the employer, a two-semester educational *908institution. Their periods of employment varied from year to year with some claimants working as few as nine months and others working 10 to 12 months a year because they were offered positions during the summer vacation period…