After months of picketing, actors and writers revived a push for strikers to receive unemployment benefits.
For nearly 130 days, members of Meredith Stiehm's union have had to search for ways to pay for groceries, rent and gas after losing their main source of income.
While strikers in New York have the option of applying for unemployment insurance, those residing in California don't. The WGA, joined by the Screen Actors Guild and other unions, rallied in Culver City to show their support for Senate Bill 799. If this measure were to become law, workers in California would receive unemployment benefits after two weeks of striking.
"It certainly is unpleasant and difficult, and I hope the labor strikes resolve, but that is not the same as unemployment insurance to us," said Robert Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce."Unemployment insurance is when you get fired. You have no idea when you're going to work again — if you're going to work again."
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