General Electric Co. v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

These claimants for unemployment compensation are employees of the company. On November 20, 1961, twenty-two welders employed by the company in the same building with the claimants, who are not welders, went on strike. As a result, there was no work for nine sheet metal workers, who are among the claimants. “ [Approximately twenty additional employees [at least some of whom are also claimants] . . . were laid off at various times as the work dried up.” The work of the welders and the claimants was in various respects closely interdependent. The welders and the claimants belong to the…