Ash v. Ravens Metal Products, Inc.

MILLER, Justice:

The plaintiffs below, Gilbert D. Ash, et al., are 149 former employees of the defendant below, Ravens Metal Products, Inc. (Ravens). Suit was filed in the Circuit Court of Wirt County on behalf of 108 of the employees contending that the defendant refused to pay them “vacation pay” they had earned prior to the initiation of a lengthy strike during which the employees were terminated from their employment. The trial court rejected .the employer’s arguments that the vacation pay dispute was not governed by West Virginia law, but rather by federal labor relations law, and…