• BaldProphet@kbin.social
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    Unemployment is paid for by employers. Paying unemployment to striking workers is in effect forcing employers to keep paying their employees even though they’re not working.

    Keep in mind that California is an at-will employment state.

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      Just wanted to point out that “Right to work” is a union term.

      California, like every U.S. state except Montana, employment is “at will,” meaning that they can fire you for any reason (except for illegal ones like discrimination.)

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            Here’s the AFL-CIO’s take on right to work AFL-CIO

            I used to be a union member in a right to work state and we had no union contract or protections until a democrat majority was voted in to the state government and passed a law allowing public safety unions to collectively bargain a contract with our employer.

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.world
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      California is not right to work, that means that a person can work in a union shop without being a member of the union. You are thinking of at will.