Whitcomb v. Department of Employment & Training

This is an appeal from a decision of the Vermont Employment Security Board denying unemployment compensation benefits to striking employees of New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (NET). We affirm.

Claimants, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), had a collective bargaining agreement with their employer, which terminated August 6, 1983. Prior to the expiration of the agreement, the parties began collective bar gaining but reached no new agreement. On the day the agreement terminated, IBEW called a strike. Over a thousand employees participated in the…