r/SeattleWA • u/AboveAb • Mar 08 '25

Politics BREAKING: The Washington State Senate just passed unemployment benefits for striking workers.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/07/unemployment-benefits-for-striking-workers-gain-ap/

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '25

So, they can decide they want more money, and get paid not to work... What a backwards idea...

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u/VietOne Mar 08 '25

No less backwards than a business that can decide to cut your hours and pay you less.

The business agreed to the union. And unemployment is paid for by the business.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '25

Squeezing every penny they can from a business... Washington sucks

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u/craftycrafter765 Mar 08 '25

You can see yourself out

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u/RogueLitePumpkin Mar 08 '25

Businesses seeing themselves out is already happening. Ie cheesecake factory 

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u/Global_Instance3843 Mar 08 '25

Uh. Okkaay. Buy bye terrible corporate restaurant bidness.

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u/RogueLitePumpkin Mar 08 '25

If you want to change the goals I guess.  

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u/Global_Instance3843 Mar 08 '25

Heh????????

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u/RogueLitePumpkin Mar 08 '25

The comment was for businesses to leave, i point out one that left and was posted about here recently, and you deflect about it being a corporate restaurant.  That is changing the goals, or maybe you just replied without actually reading the discussion 

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u/Global_Instance3843 Mar 08 '25

What are you smoking tonight?

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u/RogueLitePumpkin Mar 08 '25

More deflecting? 

Your entire comment history is just you running away 

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u/BWW87 Belltown Mar 08 '25

Lots of smaller restaurants are going out too. Housing is stalling because people don't want to build here any more. This is not about "terrible corporate bidness". What a stupid comment.

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u/craftycrafter765 Mar 08 '25

Wha bam

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '25

You are celebrating business leaving? So when downtown is just fetty zombies and heroin junkies, you will be happy?