Subsidizing Strikes Is The California Legislature’s Latest Anti-Growth Proposal - Pacific Research Institute

UI benefits are not designed for workers who have voluntarily walked off the job – it is part of the social safety net system designed to help those workers who have become unemployed through no fault of their own. Expanding these benefits to workers who voluntarily walked off the job likely violates federal law and creates additional pressures that jeopardize the program’s financial stability. This concern is heightened today because California’s state trust fund is in debt owing more than $20.5 billion to the federal unemployment insurance trust fund.[1] Additionally,...