By Bob Walsh
California State Senator Anthony Portantino
State Senator Anthony Portantino is a solid, reliable
SoCal Democrat-Socialist. He is also the chair of the Senate
Appropriations Committee. He is in the process of introducing a bill
that would pay unemployment insurance to persons who are voluntarily off
work due to being on strike. This proposal is essentially identical to
one proposed in 2019 that did not get much traction. The California
Labor Federation LOVES it but pretty much anybody who employs anybody
does not.
It is too late
in the legislative year to actually introduce a new bill, so what they
do is a "gut-and-amend." They take a bill that is going nowhere and
remove everything except the bill number, then put in all new
language.
Legislators will be back from their summer recess on Monday so there will almost certainly be some action on this matter.
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