{"id":9106,"date":"2025-03-02T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:36:39","slug":"missouri-legislature-trying-to-cut-unemployment-to-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/missouri-legislature-trying-to-cut-unemployment-to-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Legislature Trying To Cut Unemployment to 8 weeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Labor Tribune covers the latest attempt b cut unemployment benefits from 20 weeks to 8 weeks.\u00a0 The details are in <a href=\"https:\/\/labortribune.com\/missouri-afl-cio-monitoring-bill-to-cut-unemployment-benefits-from-20-weeks-to-eight\/\">Missouri AFL-CIO monitoring bill to cut unemployment benefits from 20 to 8 weeks<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), filed by Missouri Senator Mike Bernskoetter (R-Cole County)<b>,\u00a0<\/b>would\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">modify the duration an individual can<\/span>\u00a0receive benefits by basing it on a graduated scale of the Missouri average unemployment rate. Some form of the bill has been filed in the Missouri legislature almost every year since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been fighting this for several years, and it\u2019s back again,\u201d Missouri AFL-CIO President Jake Hummel told St. Louis Labor Council delegates at the council\u2019s meeting Jan. 28 meeting. \u201cWe\u2019ve been successful in blocking the bill the last few years, but there appears to be a new found energy to revive it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><b>\u2018VITAL SAFETY NET\u2019<br \/>\n<\/b>\u201cBy reducing unemployment rates from 20 to eight weeks, you take away a vital safety net that helps keep working families afloat,\u201d said Missouri Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, a member of Plumbers &amp; Pipefitters Local 562. \u201cWhen Arkansas takes better care of their unemployed, it makes you wonder.\u201d As of January 2024, the maximum length of unemployment benefits in Arkansas is\u00a012 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Missouri AFL-CIO encourages you to contact your senator and ask them to vote no on SB 8. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/legislookup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>https:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/legislookup<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0to find your senator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/missouri-legislature-trying-to-cut-unemployment-to-8-weeks\/no-money-2070384_1280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9107\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no-money-2070384_1280-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no-money-2070384_1280-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no-money-2070384_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no-money-2070384_1280-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no-money-2070384_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(image by Pixabay)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/missouri-legislature-trying-to-cut-unemployment-to-8-weeks\/no-money-2070384_1280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9107\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Labor Tribune covers the latest attempt b cut unemployment benefits from 20 weeks to 8 weeks.\u00a0 The details are in Missouri AFL-CIO monitoring bill to cut unemployment benefits from 20 to 8 weeks&#8230;. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), filed by Missouri Senator Mike Bernskoetter (R-Cole County),\u00a0would\u00a0modify the duration an individual can\u00a0receive benefits [&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":[16],"tags":[68,804],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-afl-cio","tag-unemployment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","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=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9109,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions\/9109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}