How do workers on strike pay their bills?

Workers will face a significant pay cut as they rely on relatively meager strike payments from the union to pay their bills. Boeing ...

The Empowering Striking Works Act addresses this difficult choice, ensuring workers are eligible for unemployment assistance while on strike.

Striking only works as a negotiating tactic if most of the employees are on board, which is why employees are signing strike pledge cards right ...

... workers into exercising their right to strike. Denying ... to jeopardize their hard-earned retirement security in order to pay their bills.

The bill also permits workers on strike to receive up to four weeks of unemployment benefits after the second Sunday following the start of the ...

In essence, employers will be forced to pay for workers to strike, which rather tilts the balance in labor law in one direction. UI is funded ...

Recently, I introduced legislation to allow workers participating in a labor strike to collect unemployment benefits, support which striking ...

While waiting out the strikes, Meyer and many thousands of others in the business are taking most any paycheck they can get, from Trader Joe's ...

Labor unions across the state strongly back the bill. They say it will help striking workers with expenses like rent and food while they fight ...

Creating a taxpayer-financed strike fund was a priority for big labor, and HB 1893 had 51 Democrat co-sponsors. (A companion bill in the Senate ...

Creditors are more likely to work with you when you're on strike if you've paid your bills on time in the past. 4. Contact your utility ...

Strike pay is a payment made by a trade union to workers who are on strike to help in meeting their basic needs while on strike.

... strike until workers, unable to pay their bills, become desperate. Employers, who fund unemployment benefits through payroll taxes, say the ...

Some large labor unions establish strike funds, in recognition of the financial hardship that workers bear during a strike. These funds can help ...

More than 30,000 Boeing workers are on strike after their union ... I mean, if you can't pay your bills when you're going to work, what's the ...

“Please do not mail your payment if a strike or lockout is expected or occurring,” a notice to customers reads. The utility company suggests ...

(The United Auto Workers, for instance, pays each striker $250 per week.) Unions relieved of their strike-pay obligation could use the savings ...

... strike and could then begin to receive benefit payments after an additional one-week waiting period. Had the bill passed, employees would ...

That definition does not fit a striking worker. The money partly replaces lost earnings while a worker looks for employment. The benefits are ...

... are unemployed through no fault of their own and actively searching for a job. To pay their bills, workers on strike usually rely on ...