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California is considering offering unemployment to workers on strike as the Hollywood writers walkout approaches its 4th month (www.businessinsider.com)
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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.

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[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

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