{"id":6289,"date":"2022-04-05T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2022-04-05T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:12:47","slug":"will-a-union-member-stand-up-for-unemployment-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/will-a-union-member-stand-up-for-unemployment-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Will A Union Member Stand Up For Unemployment? Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Labor Tribune brings us this story of a union member and State Senator standing up for all Missouri workers in Beck filibusters bill to cut unemployment insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jefferson City\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Senate Republicans are trying to cut Missouri unemployment coverage to just eight weeks. The change would make Missouri the worst state in the country for unemployment coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democratic Sen. Doug Beck (D-Affton), a member of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562, filibustered for two-and-a-half hours on March 22 to try to stop the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe original idea of unemployment for people came from companies,\u201d Beck said. \u201cThey were tired of losing workers when they had downtime or they had seasonal work. They wanted to keep them where they could live and survive and they could call them back [when they needed them]\u2026 It\u2019s hard to recruit and get good talent. That\u2019s what this bill will do. This will make people who are high talent, people that are going to be in demand wherever there\u2019s a demand, leave the state, they\u2019re going to go. And in our area, (St. Louis), they\u2019re just going to go over to Illinois and do their thing over there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Senator Beck was endorsed by the UAW and the AFL-CIO in the last election.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Louis Smit<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The St. Louis Labor Tribune brings us this story of a union member and State Senator standing up for all Missouri workers in Beck filibusters bill to cut unemployment insurance. Jefferson City\u00a0\u2013 Senate Republicans are trying to cut Missouri unemployment coverage to just eight weeks. The change would make Missouri the worst state in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}