GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. BOWLING

No. 54047.

85 Ill.2d 539 (1981)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellee, v. WILLIAM M. BOWLING, Director of Labor, et al. (UAW Local 694 et al., Appellants).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied October 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold A. Katz, Irving M. Friedman, Michael B. Erp, and Stanley Eisenstein, of Katz, Friedman, Schur & Eagle, of Chicago, for appellant.

Ellis A. Ballard, of Pope, Ballard, Shepard & Fowle, of Chicago (Otis M. Smith and James R. Wheatley, of Detroit, of counsel), for appellee.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (Joseph D. Keenan III, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, of counsel), for William A. Bowling, Director of Labor.

Asher, Goodstein, Pavalon, Gittler, Greenfield & Segall, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois State Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

The question raised by this appeal is whether certain employees of General Motors Corporation (GM) are entitled to unemployment compensation benefits. Claimants were shop clerks employed at GM's Electro-Motive Division plants in Chicago and La Grange, and belonged to United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Local No...

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