Mountain View School District v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Mountain View School District appeals from the board’s1 award of compensation benefits to token claimant Bobert Jurbala and sixty-eight other members of the Mountain View Education Association (union); the board affirmed the referee’s determination that the claimants’ unemployment was the result of a lock-out.2

The two-year labor contract between the district and the union expired on June 30, 1978. The district board had not approved a calendar or opening day for the 1978-79 school year, although the teachers’ in-service day marking the commencement of school had been the…