Chrysler Corp. v. Washington

Plaintiff, Chrysler Corporation, appeals a judgment of the circuit court ordering payment of "back-to-work” benefits to the six individual defendants. We reverse as to all defendants.

All six individual defendants were employed by Chrysler Corporation at its "Mack Stamping Plant”. The period of forced idleness which gave rise to this case was engendered by Chrysler's annual model changeover which took place in the summer of 1968.

For the sake of this statement of facts alone, the six individual defendants will be placed into three separate groups.

(I) Washington and Greer worked from Monday,…