Hazel Paden v. U. S. Department of Labor and the Secretary of the Department of Labor

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Petitioners are former employees of Motorola, Inc., who were engaged in the manufacture of either monochrome (black and white) television sets or automotive sound equipment at Motorola’s plant in Quincy, Illinois. In May 1974, Motorola sold its trade name “Quasar” and all its television producing assets to Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd., a Japanese firm. Matsushita exercised an option to purchase the Quincy plant from Motorola and agreed to take over the plant in May 1976. During the interim, Motorola continued producing Quasar televisions and…