Scoggins v. Morgan

This is an appeal by numerous employes from decisions of the Employment Appeals Board which denied them unemployment compensation for the period they were unemployed during the summer and early fall of 1971 as the result of the West Coast dock strike.

The dispute was over the terms for renewal of the labor contract between the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), the employers’ bargaining association.

After several months of negotiations the labor agreement expired on June 30, 1971. On the following day the ILWU called a…