Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Labor & Industrial Relations Commission

TURNAGE, Presiding Judge.

Approximately 3,750 ground employees of TWA were found eligible for unemployment benefits by a deputy of the Division of Employment Security following a strike by the flight attendants on November 4, 1973. That decision was affirmed by an Appeals Tribunal and that decision, in turn, was adopted by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. On appeal to the circuit court, the decision was affirmed.

TWA contends the claimants were erroneously declared eligible because the Appeals Tribunal applied an erroneous rule of law. Reversed and remanded.

TWA is engaged in the…