[DaBroasta]

What incentive would union workers have to go to the bargaining table when the taxpayer is paying them to stay home on there a$$?

[fhayek]

I don't know how it is in California, but in New York state, employers pay a unemployment insurance premium to the state. It is in effect a tax, because you can't shop around for better deals, and if you don't do it, you are shut down. Your rate, as an employer is based upon how often you lay off employees. Seasonal businesses pay a higher rate.

It sucks in many ways. They go back like six months. If an employee quits you, to work for someone else, and the new employer lays him off, they can use layoff that to determine your rate, even if you would have kept the employee all along.

Anyway, the employer, in this case, would be taxed to subsidize the very employees that are striking against him. How anyone thinks this is a good idea is beyond me. Then again, Democrats.