Quinn v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

A referee denied test claimant John E. Quinn1 benefits because the work stoppage in which he participated was found to be a strike and not a lockout.2 The Unemployment Compensation Board of Review affirmed this determination. Quinn appeals; we affirm.

*630Quinn, a pipefitter, is .a member of tbe Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union, Local 8-373. Its three-year contract with Purex Corporation expired on March 31, 1984, at which time the Union established picket lines. The referee found that the Union rejected Purex’s offer of continued…