Nestle Co. v. Johnson

This is an appeal by the Nestle Company from an order of the Circuit Court of Madison County affirming a decision of the Director of Labor to grant unemployment benefits to certain of Nestle’s employees for a period when they refused to cross picket lines maintained by members of another union which was on strike at Nestle’s Granite City Plant.

Nestle contends that the administrative decision is based on a misinterpretation of a recent amendment to the Unemployment Compensation Act, and that the findings that the nonstriking union members were not participating in or directly interested in the…