Labor law favors employers and corporate CEOs over workers when it comes to bargaining a contract.
But a proposal to allow workers to access unemployment insurance after they have been on strike for two weeks will help restore balance to collective bargaining.
Legislation allowing striking workers to access unemployment insurance is working its way through the General Assembly, but Governor Lamont is already threatening to veto it.
Email Governor Lamont now and ask him to stop siding with powerful employers and stand with working people!
Employers' refusal to fairly negotiate is a feature of their bargaining strategy, not a bug. During the 2023 Writers Guild strike, one studio executive said: "The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their homes."
Current law permits employers to leverage the threat of evictions, foreclosures and repossessions to suppress wages and working conditions because striking workers cannot access unemployment insurance.
Two of our neighboring states, New York and New Jersey, already allow striking workers to access unemployment insurance. Connecticut workers should have the same ability.
Contact Governor Lamont and urge him to SUPPORT Senate Bill 8!
