WGA West’s Meredith Stiehm & SAG-AFTRA’s Joely Fisher Lobby For California Bill That Would Give Striking Workers Unemployment Benefits
deadline.comWGA West President Meredith Stiehm and SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer Joely Fisher were in Sacramento last week lobbying California legislators for passage of Senate Bill 799, which would make striking workers eligible to collect unemployment benefits.
The bill passed through the Assembly Insurance Committee on Thursday and the Legislature has until September 14 to send the bill to the Governor’s desk.
Striking workers in New York and New Jersey are eligible to collect unemployment benefits, but strikers in California are not.
Addressing the California State Assembly Insurance Committee in Sacramento, Stiehm and Fisher, who are both up for re-election later this month, called unemployment insurance a much-needed safety net for striking workers.
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