Ames v. Employment Appeal Board

CARTER, Justice.

Members of the nonstriking Pattern Workers Union who allege they were prevented from reporting to work at Deere & Company plants in Waterloo and Dubuque by picketing strikers from the United Auto Workers Union challenge denial of unemployment benefits. The district court affirmed the Employment Appeal Board’s order which determined that the claimants were disqualified under the “voluntary quit” provision of Iowa Code section 96.5(1) (1985). Upon consideration of the arguments of the parties, we affirm the denial of benefits for the claimants working at the Dubuque plant and…