International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, Local Union No. 782 v. Texas Employment Commission

This suit was brought in the District Court of Smith County, Texas, by appellants, International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, Local Union No. 782, AFI-CIO, (IUE) and 99 individuals, to review a decision of the Texas Employment Commission (TEC) denying unemployment compensation benefits to 99 employees of General Electric Company’s (GE) Tyler, Texas, plant for the week beginning August 4 and ending August 10, 1957. To this action TEC and GE were joint defendants. (This GE plant was shut down for three weeks and all claimants were paid unemployment compensation benefits for…