Unions’ praise for Gavin Newsom turns to disappointment after he vetoes a bill to give state jobless benefits to strikers.
Sign up for a weekly digest of reporting and analysis on one of the Golden State’s most pressing issues: inequality.Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Striking workers would have been eligible to collect California unemployment benefits under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed. He said it's a cost the state cannot afford to bear right now. Photo by David Swanson, ReutersWorkers protest in front of InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles on July 2, 2023.
The press conference, held at a union headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, featured ecstatic worker testimonies, a mariachi band and on-camera cheers as Newsom signed what many called landmark legislation.of 34 bills he signed and, at the bottom, included five bills he vetoed, including the unemployment measure and the domestic worker bill.
Gonzalez Fletcher, of the Labor Federation, tweeted that the bill would have allowed striking workers to tap unemployment benefits they had already earned. “New laws in this area must recognize that private households and families cannot be regulated in the exact same manner as traditional businesses,” he wrote
In 2020, Newsom vetoed a similar measure. Since then a statewide advisory committee has created voluntary work safety standards andNewsom said the committee also discussed giving domestic employers opportunities to learn about and correct violations before formal enforcement occurs.
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