Randall, Burkart/Randall Division of Textron, Inc. v. Daniels

Richard L. Mays, Justice.

This case arises from a special examiner’s award of unemployment compensation to claimants whom the petitioner contends are ineligible because of the “labor dispute” disqualification provision of the Arkansas Employment Security Act (Ark. Sat. Ann. § 81-1101, et seq. [Repl. 1976]). On appeal the award has been sustained by the Board of Review, the circuit court and the Court of Appeals. The case is here on a petition for certiorari, which we granted.

Petitioner, the Randall Company, is a manufacturing concern with a plant in Blytheville, Arkansas which employs more…