{"id":8347,"date":"2024-06-20T04:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:14:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:14:59","slug":"top-labor-stories-from-the-missouri-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/top-labor-stories-from-the-missouri-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Labor Stories From The Missouri Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Labor Tribune has published the Missouri AFL-CIO&#8217;s review of the recently concluded action at the state capitol..\u00a0 Enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/labortribune.com\/opinion-top-5-labor-stories-from-the-2024-legislative-session\/\">Top 5 Labor stories from the 2024 legislative session<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>5. Fighting off attacks on unemployment insurance.<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Large corporations are always going after our hard-earned social safety net, and they play the long game. At a time of record low unemployment they thought we wouldn\u2019t have the organization or the wherewithal to stop attacks on unemployment income (UI) benefits; they were wrong.\u00a0The attacks came in two major forms: (1.) Reducing the week of eligibility by tying is to the statewide unemployment rate (SB 745), and (2.) By reducing insurance payments by offsetting them against unrelated benefits workers have already earned (i.e. reducing UI payments by a worker\u2019s unused vacation time they had saved when laid off).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">While unemployment is low now, that doesn\u2019t mean workers aren\u2019t still being laid off, or that the good times will last forever.\u00a0Both attacks threaten the long-term security of Missouri\u2019s workers, but with the help of union workers and leaders from across the state we were able to stop these bad bills and protect workers rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">As the president of the Missouri AFL-CIO, I want to thank every union member that made a call, wrote an email, came to Jefferson City or attended any political event this spring to help us fight back against the anti-Labor bills in Jefferson City.\u00a0It\u2019s a tough environment, and winning certainly isn\u2019t guaranteed, but every year we pull together and fight like hell to protect our rights. I\u2019m grateful to be in this fight with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2013\/03\/07\/15\/18\/jefferson-city-91210_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Free Jefferson City Missouri photo and picture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(graphic via Pixabay)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Labor Tribune has published the Missouri AFL-CIO&#8217;s review of the recently concluded action at the state capitol..\u00a0 Enjoy the Top 5 Labor stories from the 2024 legislative session&#8230;. 5. Fighting off attacks on unemployment insurance.\u00a0Large corporations are always going after our hard-earned social safety net, and they play the long game. At [&hellip;]<\/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-8347","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\/8347","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=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}