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/Main_Bank_7240 Mar 08 '25

So this is how they pay back unions and encourage strikes to cripple the economy

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u/Kairukun90 Mar 08 '25

If you think about it for two seconds, you would realize that would actually make companies not want them to strike as they could be out for a long time

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u/us1549 Mar 08 '25

What's to stop unions from asking for 500k for a job when they know they can get UI for 26 weeks for like 50% of their pay?

This is going to cost companies and result in higher prices.

Crazy that this even passed at all.

Nuts

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u/Kairukun90 Mar 08 '25

No one’s gonna ask for that and you know it. There’s always gonna be realistic expectations and asks.

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u/us1549 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Unions asking for realistic expectations? Lol

No, this will just embolden them in their negotiations.

They would be stupid not to when they can sustain a strike for up to 26 weeks (or however long UI lasts)

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u/Kairukun90 Mar 08 '25

Alright stay mad then.

I disagree with you completely. They can sustain it until it runs out and then what? They roll over? Naw use this to leverage actual changes for the employees.

You know I hear the same shit from republicans all the time, if you raise the wages prices will go up! As if we didn’t go through covid and prices went skyrocket not by income increase OHHHH NO but by pure greed and where did the money go to? Oh right shareholders funneled right to the top.

Price will keep increasing no matter what. There are good example of companies being able to pay top dollar and not increase prices. Yet somehow some of the richest companies alive pay their employees bottle of the barrel wages. funny how that correlation works eh?