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’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.
The 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.
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.