Texas Employment Commission & General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electric Radio & Machine Workers, Local Union no. 782

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE STEAKLEY

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case as it reaches us with the Texas Employment Commission and General Electric Company as petitioners involves the right of eighty-eight respondents to unemployment compensation benefits for the week of August 4, 1957, during which the plant of General Electric Company at Tyler was shut down. The facts common to all of the respondents require a construction of certain provisions of their collective bargaining contract in the light of the applicable provisions of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act. The claims of the…