Kenneth F. Sullivan Co. v. Industrial Commission

The first and most crucial issue presented on this appeal is whether the respondents left or lost their employment because of a strike or other bona fide labor dispute in active progress at the establishment where they were last employed.

Employees are generally entitled to compensation for the time that they are unemployed. Sullivan’s employees, the respondents, were laid off because of a lack of cement at the project sites. This lack of concrete, in turn, was caused by a strike of the supplier’s truck drivers. The precise question is whether workers, who become unemployed due to a material…