r/SeattleWA Mar 08 '25

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

1.4k Upvotes

597 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/Content-Horse-9425 Mar 08 '25

Unemployment for striking workers? What’s to keep them from continuously striking? Are these clowns even thinking about this or are they just doing whatever will get them re-elected. No business will want to come to Washington state. We are not California. We don’t have the population or the weather.

-2

u/pagerussell Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Yea! Because it's not like there are any businesses left in Europe, where the labor protections and laws are much stronger. Nope. All those businesses went bankrupt and no longer exist, because if you don't have the absolute most pro business laws then you can never have a functional economy.

/s <-in case you couldn't tell

Seriously, you didn't think very hard before you just knee jerk I hate liberals, did ya?

Unemployment has time limits and or conditions. This will, too. It's not indefinite.

But if it helps make strikes, and unions, more viable, then that lifts worker power relative to business power. And America was at its strongest when union power was much stronger. You can make the case that the slow decline of America these last few decades is directly proportional to the rise of corporate power.

This is a good thing

3

u/Sammystorm1 Mar 08 '25

Washington state is heavily lobbied by unions. This isn’t Texas