If you are unemployed because of a strike, benefits are not payable for your first 14 days of unemployment due to the strike. If a strike is in violation of the Railway Labor Act or is not authorized by the national office of the striking labor organization, unemployment benefits are not payable to employees participating in the strike. However, employees not among those participating in an illegal strike, but who are unemployed because of the strike, may receive benefits after the first 2 weeks of the strike.