Wheeler v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

Wheeler was and is-a captain-pilot employed by Eastern Air Lines, Inc. (Eastern), also named as a respondent. For some time prior to June 23,1962, Eastern’s flight engineers had been negotiating a new labor contract with Eastern. There was in dispute principally a “proposed reduction of the crew complement in jet aircraft by one member, [from four members (three pilots and one flight engineer) to three members], with the flight engineers insisting that the third member of the crew should come up from the ranks of airline mechanics with a flight engineer’s ticket, while . . . [Eastern] wanted…