Baker v. General Motors Corp.

The issue in this case is whether the payment by union members of temporarily increased "emergency dues”, authorized by an amendment to the union constitution, required as a condition of union membership and collected in designated amounts as part of the members’ monthly dues, into a union strike fund during an ongoing national strike against another employer, disqualifies those members from receiving unemployment compensation benefits when they subsequently become unemployed because local issue strikes in other establishments operated by their employer result in layoffs at the members’ own…