In re the Claim of Freeman

Appeal by the employer from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board determining that claimants, who were carpenters, bricklayers and laborers employed by the general contractor for a *1009.State project, had properly been held eligible for benefits without any disqualifying conditions, and that none of the claimants “ lost his employment because of a strike, lockout, or other industrial controversy in the establishment in which he was employed”. (Labor Law, § 592, subd. 1.) The facts are not in dispute. Ironworkers employed on the project by a subcontractor for the steel work…