Therrien v. Maine Employment Security Commission

GODFREY, Justice.

Appellees claim unemployment benefits under the Maine Employment Security Law, chapter 13 of title 26 of our statutes. Employed as spinners by appellant First Hartford Corporation in its Wyandotte Mill, they were asked to volunteer in what the company proposed as a trial program to determine whether one spinner could efficiently run three frames rather than two as had been the standard practice in the mill.

A frame is a long machine holding seven overhead spools each of which continuously generates twenty-four spinning threads. The job of the spinner is to patrol each frame on…