bill to require California’s heavily indebted unemployment insurance fund to pay striking workers has passed the state legislature and now heads to the governor’s desk.
Opposition to the bill focused on the moral quandary of treating those who choose to go on strike the same as those who no longer have a job, and the fact that the bill appears to be a quid pro quo benefitting the organized labor groups that supply a significant portion of supporters’ campaign contributions.
“There’s no way that you can come up with a logical reason to give somebody unemployment who has a job, who decides to go on strike,” said Senator Brian Dahle, R – Reading on the Senate floor before the bill’s final vote. After explaining that it’s businesses such as his that wholly fund the state’s unemployment benefits fund. Dahle said, “If there are people going on strike, let’s not … take the money business owners pay and use it to pay employees of theirs to strike against them.”
“Labor unions give millions to politicians,” said Assemblymember Bill Essayli, R – Woodcrest, on X. “SB799 is a giveaway to labor unions that will use taxpayer dollars to subsidize union strikes.”
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