Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Employment Security Commission

The principal issue in this case is similar to the principal issue decided in the so-called “Ford-Canton” case: Park v. Employment Security Commission, 355 Mich 103. Claimants are Michigan-based employees of Northwest Airlines who were laid off from work as a result of a strike by flight engineers who were domiciled in Minneapolis and Seattle, but who were attached to aircraft which flew from place to place throughout the airline system. Federal aviation regulations required such engineers to be on hoard aircraft during flight. When the flight engineers went on a systemwide strike January 9,…