( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “in the country.” Some California lawmakers want to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits. [CutID: <Cuts> CAL-UNEMPLOYMENT-AID-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 27s Title: CAL-UNEMPLOYMENT-AID-house-q-THUam Out-cue: in the country] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Labor unions say workers should not be punished for businesses not paying enough taxes. ———————————– VERBATIM: The […]
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California may pay unemployment to striking workers, but fund is already insolvent
( ) -q-27- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “in the country.”
Some California lawmakers want to make striking workers eligible for unemployment benefits.
[CutID: <Cuts> CAL-UNEMPLOYMENT-AID-house-q-THUam.mp3
Time: 27s
Title: CAL-UNEMPLOYMENT-AID-house-q-THUam
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Labor unions say workers should not be punished for businesses not paying enough taxes.
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VERBATIM: The push in the final weeks of the California state’s legislative session is in response to multiple strikes. They includes hotel workers in Southern California, and Hollywood actors and writers. California does not have enough money to pay all of the unemployment benefits workers are owed today. The fund is filled by a tax businesses pay on their workers wages. But the tax has not changed since 1984 and is among the lowest in the country.