Senate Majority Leader Senator Bob Duff, Majority Leader, Connecticut helps make the case for #UIforStrikingWorkers ! Working people shouldn't have to choose between better working conditions or putting food on the table. #LevelThePlayingField

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.SAG-AFTRA NY Local's Executive Director Rebecca Damon responds brilliantly to a question in the Labor Committee about if #UIforStrikingWorkers would tip the scales unnecessarily!

Workers are out in force in Hartford this morning to advocate for #UIforStrikingWorkers ! The legislature should #LevelThePlayingField by allowing striking workers to access unemployment insurance.

Yesterday #union members brought personal stories to #CTGeneralAssembly in support of legislation extending #UIforStrikingWorkers , demanded lawmakers act to #LevelThePlayingField ! #UnionYES @AFTUnion AFT Healthcare AFL-CIO ✊ Connecticut AFL-CIO

Grateful to our incredible union members who took time yesterday to lobby for #UIforStrikingWorkers , a critical pro-worker bill. It's time to #LevelThePlayingField for working people! #1u

Stand with working people and urge your state representative to support unemployment benefits for striking workers! Workers shouldn't have to choose between better working conditions or putting food on the table. #UIforStrikingWorkers

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'Corporate leaders aren’t concerned with the plights of people like Maria or any of our union members when negotiations run afoul. In fact, it is precisely those plights they are counting on as leverage against us.' –IAM Local 1746 member Joe Durette on #UIforStrikingWorkers

.ATU, Transit Union Local 1336 President Mustafa Salahuddin: 'Economists estimate that every $1 spent on UI benefits generates $2 worth of economic activity. It helps sustain local retail outlets, childcare facilities and other community businesses during a dispute.' #UIforStrikingWorkers

.Corbin’s Corner Starbucks Workers United member Travis Glenney-Tegtmeier explains why baristas have struck at Starbucks: Unsafe working conditions, abuses perpetrated by managers, illegal firings, and the company’s stonewalling of the contract bargaining process. #UIforStrikingWorkers #LevelThePlayingField

Majority Leader @SenatorDuff at #UIforStrikingWorkers Lobby Day: 'This bill is important because it provides a level playing field for workers... Let's get this bill passed in the House and the Senate!'

.UFCW Local 371 member Lucy Sciarretto explains how #UIforStrikingWorkers would level the playing field and lead to contracts being settled sooner. Read it here --> drive.google.com/file/d/1j0F5O7…

.Julie Kushner Kushner is helping kickoff our #UIforStrikingWorkers Lobby Day: 'Workers shouldn't have to choose between putting food on the table and protecting our benefits and wages... No worker should be starved out because they decided to stand up.' #LevelThePlayingField

Brian Simmons and his fiancé both worked at Stop & Shop in 2019 when they went on strike: 'We were all naturally afraid to take this vote, but we also felt our employer left us with no choice.' #UIforStrikingWorkers #LevelThePlayingField UFCW

.Machinists Union Local 700's Heather Merrick was on strike in 2001 as a new mom: 'UI benefits would not have paid all my bills even back then. However, it would offer a small security to ease a new mom’s mind to know they could at least feed their child.' #UIforStrikingWorkers

'Providing workers with UI while striking allows us to have more control of our working conditions. No one deserves to be underpaid, work in unsafe conditions, go without healthcare' –Machinists Union Local 700 Steward Kylie McCarthy testifying in support of #UIforStrikingWorkers

.UFCW Local 371 Exec. VP Keri Hoehne testifying on #UIforStrikingWorkers & reflects on the strike at Stop & Shop in 2019: 'It would have meant that Stop & Shop would have bargained in good faith and settled an agreement without ever forcing the strike in the first place'

.National Employment Law Project Senior Researcher Amy Traub testifying in support of #UIforStrikingWorkers : 'This legislation is consistent with the long-standing core purposes of the unemployment insurance program and would have powerful benefits for workers, families, and communities across CT.'

.The Century Foundation Senior Fellow Michele Evermore makes the economic case for #UIforStrikingWorkers : 'If anything, this bill would keep parties at the table to avoid costly and disruptive labor disputes.'

Full op-ed: hartfordbusiness.com/article/the-ec…

.SAG-AFTRA's Rebecca Damon testifying in support of CT's #UIforStrikingWorkers bill: 'The recent SAG-AFTRA strike was one of the longest in our union’s history... HB 5164 would allow striking workers to keep their families heads above water while a fair contract is reached.'

Send letter now urging Governor Ned Lamont sign-not veto-recently passed law extending #UIforStrikingWorkers : act.aflcio.org/letters/tell-g…; stand w/working people not CEOs! #LevelThePlayingField @AFTUnion AFT Healthcare AFL-CIO ✊ Connecticut AFL-CIO