Beckert v. Administrator

The claimant had registered with the employment service and had filed claims for unemployment compensation. On May 19, 1955, the employment service (public employment bureau) offered claimant a referral to Sam Cohen, Inc., as a sheet metal worker, at the time informing the claimant that the proposed employer was operating under a so-called “union shop” agreement the basic effect of which was to make it necessary for a new employee to join the union within thirty days or lose his job. The claimant refused to take the job solely because it required union membership. Admittedly the work offered…