James E. Frick, Inc. v. Employment Division

Employer petitions for review of the award of unemployment compensation benefits to claimants by the Employment Appeals Board (EAB). We affirm.

Employer operates a wholesale grocery business. Its warehouse employees, some of whom are claimants here, are members of Teamsters Local 206; employees who are truck drivers belong to Teamsters Local 162. Each local has a separate collective bargaining contract with employer. Employer’s warehouse manager testified that Local 206 had agreed to a new contract with employer, but had not yet signed the contract when Local 162 turned down a similar offer…