DOW CHEMICAL CO. v. CURTIS

Docket No. 80516, (Calendar No. 8).

431 Mich. 471 (1988)

430 N.W.2d 645

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY v. CURTIS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levin, Levin, Garvett & Dill (by Erwin B. Ellmann and Eli Grier) for Dow Chemical Company.

Kim Arthur Siegfried for Irvin Curtis, et al.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and David A. Voges, Assistant Attorney General, for Michigan Employment Security Commission.

Amicus Curiae:

Jordan Rossen, General Counsel, and Richard W. McHugh, Associate General Counsel, for International Union, UAW.


GRIFFIN, J.

In 1974, while on strike against the Dow Chemical Company, 486 of Dow's employees arranged with other employers to perform interim jobs which lasted, on the average, less than two days, for the purpose of qualifying for unemployment compensation. While the strike was still in progress and claims by the 486 employees for unemployment benefits were pending before the Michigan Employment Security Commission, the

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