(The Center Square) – A 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.
Under existing law, strikers are not eligible for unemployment benefits until the strike is over. If Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 799 into law, strikers would be eligible for receiving unemployment benefits two weeks into a strike. Supporters specifically cited the ongoing Hollywood strike and the Unite Local 11 hospitality strikes in justifying the bill.
“Today’s vote was a victory for the writers, the actors, the hotel workers, the autoworkers, the nurses and every worker who has made the difficult sacrifice to go out on …