Pfenning v. Department of Employment & Training

This is an appeal of a decision of the Vermont Employment Security Board denying unemployment compensation benefits to ninety employees who had been locked out of their *534place of employment by their employer, Cone Blanchard Machine Company. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.

The claimants in this case, members of United Electrical Workers of America, had a collective bargaining agreement with their employer which terminated in June 1983. Prior to the expiration of the agreement, the company and the union engaged in contract negotiations. When no agreement was reached by the…