Newsom Vetoes Bill Giving Unemployment Benefits to Workers on Strike
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill giving unemployment benefits to striking workers, which was backed by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA. “Now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizable debt,” he wrote in his veto message Saturday.
Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D-Burbank), who had sponsored the bill, was disappointed by the veto. “The labor unrest and concern we all witnessed this summer earned the Legislature’s action to pass unemployment benefits for striking workers.
The need continues and so will efforts to make this the law in California. The hardworking women and men in California need to put food on their table and pay their rent.
SB 799 would have injected a small piece of security to working families that is needed and deserved,” he said in a statement.
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