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California is considering offering unemployment to workers on strike as the Hollywood writers walkout approaches its 4th month (www.businessinsider.com)

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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.

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[–] pwnstar@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 3 points 1 year ago

The 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.