Court Opinion

ID: 9550593
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:37:48.769288+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:21:55.148689
License: Public Domain

WADE, Justice
(concurring in the result).
I agree that compensation was properly denied on the ground that the plaintiffs either left their employment *560voluntarily without good cause or they were involved in a strike. I agree with Mr. Justice CROCKETT that a person who wished to go to work might involuntarily refuse to cross a picket line to do so. On the other hand, these plaintiffs may have of their own free will refused to go to work because they believed that the cause of the strikers who established the picket line was just and they were willing to forego their benefits from working in order to help that cause. If such were the case, their failure to work would be voluntary and without good cause even though the picket line' was sufficient to coerce them into leaving their work against their own free will. Whether the evidence here shows that this work stoppage was voluntary or not, I do not express an opinion. However, if there had been no vote to honor the picket line by plaintiffs’ union, and plaintiffs were coerced by the picket line to leave their work against their free will, then I believe that they would be entitled to compensation.