Gavin Newsom vetoes bill that would give striking workers unemployment benefits

Days after President Joe Biden joined a picket line of striking autoworkers in Michigan in an unprecedented public display of support, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have given unemployment benefits to striking workers in California — a blow to organized labor in a state that typically embraces it. “Now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizable debt,” said Newsom in his veto statement over the weekend. Senate Bill 799 was backed by the Writers Guild of America, which recently reached a deal to end a months-long strike, and SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands o...