BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC. v. ALDRIDGE

No. 82375.

688 N.E.2d 90 (1997)

179 Ill.2d 141

227 Ill.Dec. 753

BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC., Appellee, v. Cecil ALDRIDGE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

October 23, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William LaMarca, Springfield, John M. West, Paul M. Zimmerman, Breedhoff and Kaiser, Washington, for Cecil B. Aldridge.

Lee Ann Russo, Patrick, F. McCartan, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, for Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.

Jim Ryan, Attorney General, Civil Appeals Div., John P. Schmidt, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, for Lynn Quigley Doherty.

Cynthia C. Mooney, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Mark S. Killion, Stratton, Stone & Kopec, Springfield, for Illinois Manufacturers' Association.


Chief Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Section 604 of the Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act disqualifies an employee from receiving unemployment benefits where the employee is voluntarily unemployed because of a labor strike at the place where he or she was "last employed." 820 ILCS 405/604 (West 1994). In Dienes v. Holland, 78 Ill.2d 8, 34 Ill.Dec. 292, 397 N.E.2d 1358<...

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