R.C.W., Inc. v. Texas Employment Commission

DICKENSON, Justice.

The issue is whether union employees are entitled to recover unemployment benefits when they are laid off by their employer because the employer’s customers wanted the union employees off the customers’ premises before an anticipated strike.

The employer, R.C.W., Inc., protested the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to its former employees because this caused an increased unemployment tax rate for the employer. The Texas Employment Commission awarded benefits to the former employees and charged the employer’s account. R.C.W., Inc. appealed this decision to the…