Bedwell v. Employment Security Commission

This is an unemployment compensation case. The ultimate issue is whether the facts in the case bring it within the disqualification-for-benefits provisions of CLS 1956, § 421.29, subd (1) (b) (Stat Ann 1960 Rev §17.531, subd [1] [b]), applicable to unemployment due to a stoppage of work existing because of a labor dispute. The appeal board found that the stoppage of work was caused by a labor dispute, but the circuit court, on certiorari, held that it was caused by the defendant employer’s desire to reduce its production and the inventory of its product in process of production and that the…