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January 30, 2009
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Unemployment Benefits for Strikers? Court Says Yes

The New Jersey State Supreme Court, in a 6-1 ruling, has authorized striking nurses to receive unemployment benefits, overturning just about every precedent concerning unemployment insurance. The lone dissenting justice, Roberto Rivera-Soto, called the decision "perverse," noting that it "upends the common-sense notion that striking employees have left their employment voluntarily and, hence, ...