Massachusetts Appeals Court September 5, 2001, No. 99-P-759 (Hertz Corp. v. Acting Director of Division of Employment & Training)

Cowin, J.

We address the question whether a “stoppage of work,” as that term is used in G. L. c. 151 A, § 25(6), occurred when a labor dispute between International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 25, and Hertz Corporation generated a strike lasting six weeks during the summer of 1996.