Gee Scott: Giving striking workers unemployment benefits is ‘incentive to strike’
Mar 10, 2025, 4:00 PM | Updated: 4:24 pm
Unemployment benefits for striking workers are part of a new bill in the WA legislature. (Getty Images)
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Should striking workers earn unemployment benefits while out on strike? Washington Democrats say yes, passing . The bill provided unemployment benefits for up to 12 weeks during a strike. But what does the “Gee and Ursula Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio think?
Supporters and Democratic lawmakers argue striking minimum wage workers would struggle to survive without it. They also believe it would strengthen collective bargaining.
Host Gee Scott isn’t so sure.
“It’s the employer that pays for it…,” host Gee Scott said. “That’s the proposal. All this is really an incentive to strike. A worker can threaten to strike tomorrow. And boom, has the leverage and the incentive.”
成人X站 Newsradio fill-in host Angel Poe Russell wondered if there’s a way to compromise and cut the unemployment eligibility to four weeks.
Listen to the full discussion below.
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