California is considering offering unemployment to workers on strike as the Hollywood writers walkout approaches its 4th month
California is considering offering unemployment to workers on strike as the Hollywood writers walkout approaches its 4th month
California saw 14 major strikes by labor unions in July, including 160,000 workers belonging to SAG-AFTRA and another 11,500 writers from the Writers Guild of America.
California saw 14 major strikes by labor unions in July, including 160,000 workers belonging to SAG-AFTRA and another 11,500 writers from the Writers Guild of America.
That would be incredible development in the world of workers negociations!
47Precedent that strikers receive unemployment? Yes please!
7
Now this is something Id like my tax dollars to be put towards.
42This is the best summary I could come up with:
Legislators are now considering a bill that would make any striking workers in the state eligible for unemployment benefits if their action lasts more than two weeks.
If it passes, it would make California the third state in the nation to adopt such a policy, following in the footsteps of New York and New Jersey.
New Jersey expanded its law in April, decreasing the waiting period for striking workers before benefits kick in from 30 to 14 days.
"When workers are on strike, they don't have money to make purchases, they're not shopping, they're late on their rents and their mortgage payments.
Robert Moutrie, a policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce, however, called the proposal "irresponsible" and said it would burden employers throughout the state.
"California's UI system is already $18 billion in debt," Moutrie wrote in a statement earlier this month.
The original article contains 535 words, the summary contains 144 words. Saved 73%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
17would burden employers
thats the whole point of a strike, no? it would be great if michigan would do this in the wake of the auto strikes but they seem insistent on arching their back for the same companies that ruined the state and Detroit in the first place.
4Good bot!
Also the UI system would be less in debt if alleged embezzlement of the funds from those at the top didn't happen so much. And also, so what? It keeps people from literally starving, seems like accruing a bunch of debt is a fine trade and the fix is not to continue to let people starve.
4
That's not what unemployment is for... they are willingly unemployed and not actively looking for work, which is kind of a requirement to be eligible.
-14The studios think they can outlast the strikers. If California did this, that hope dies and this strike ends sooner, which benefits California since that's one of their top earning industries.
Is it what it was intended for? Decidedly not. Is it a good use of that funding regardless? You bet your ass it is.
I'll take solidarity in whatever form it comes.
12The average person has basically no savings with which to strike, and this is more due to bad monetary policy (federal not CA) than personal responsibility. Letting them pay for it with unemployment helps cancel that out.
6