Strike benefits squabble renews focus on California’s insolvent unemployment insurance system.
Sometimes Gov. Gavin Newsom and union leaders sing from the same hymnal, but they occasionally are at odds, particularly when labor is feuding with corporate interests the governor is also cultivating.Gov. Gavin Newsom describes himself as a “progressive” and has said his vision for California includes a highly unionized workforce.
That syndrome was displayed last weekend when he vetoed two of union leaders’ high priority measures, including one that would haveThe juxtaposition drew a sharp retort from Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, who resigned from the Legislature last year to become head of the California Labor Federation., formerly known as Twitter. “Gov. Newsom has vetoed three important labor bills, including labor’s collective highest priority bill — SB 799.
Newsom’s veto of SB 799 does not end the battle. Gonzalez Fletcher pledged to put the bill on Newsom’s desk again, saying, “We will keep fighting until striking workers The state borrowed money from the federal government during the Great Recession because its Unemployment Insurance Fund, or UIF, had virtually no reserves. When the state didn’t repay the loan, the feds hiked payroll taxes on employers and it was finally retired in 2018.
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