Ritchey v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Rena C. Ritchey appeals from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review holding her to be ineligible for benefits on the ground that she had voluntarily left work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature. Section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess., P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S. §802 (b) (1).

Ritchey and her fellow employees of Hedstrom Company’s Bedford, Pennsylvania plant were on strike from July 12, 1976 until September 9, 1976. At the conclusion of the strike, Ritchey, in…