In re the Claim of Nickerson

Rose, J. Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed March 31, 2004, which ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she had no covered base period employment.

Claimant had been employed by an airline as a customer ser*981vice representative when she took an indefinite, unpaid leave of absence in 2000 to serve full time as the president of Local 1171 of the Communications Workers of America, a union comprised of employees of the airline. In 2003, claimant lost her bid for reelection and, upon being informed by the airline…