Can Striking Workers Get Unemployment?

There is always McDonalds if ya don't like where you are

working now.... 2 generations of "Ungrateful and Lazy workers"

is the problem I see.

In general, a striking worker cannot collect unemployment benefits.This includes persons that are not part of the striking union and refuses to cross the picket lines. Everyone else is entitled to unemployment benefits as a laid off employee.

The striking (and participating) workers could be prevented from collecting unemployment after the plant closure. Hostess could terminate with cause the striking workers (for refusing to show up for work at their designated times). Fired workers are ineligible for unemployment just like any other person fired for cause. Just because the company subsequently lays off other people does not change the fact that they were first fired for cause. "But the person wasn't properly fired" you might argue (didn't not follow the contract provisions). First, this is just an example of how they could be prevented from collecting. Second, the Bakers (vs. the Teamsters) working without a contract (refused to accept the contract offered), so the contract does not apply.

Being on strike is not the same as being unemployed. So, no, they cannot collect unemployment while on strike. Many unions set up a "strike fund" to help pay their members a little money while on strike for this reason. Once they are laid off, however, they can go apply for unemployment and they will all get it as well.

Keep in mind that the money from unemployment comes, in part, from the workers' themselves. A portion of every paycheck of every employee is put into a fund to pay unemployment. Most people never collect which is how the fund stays afloat. So it's not as though this would cost taxpayers anything - at least nothing above what they're already paying.

Anyways, from what I've read, the company's management had driven the company into bankruptcy a few years earlier. As part of the agreement from back then, workers voluntarily took a pay cut with the understanding it was a temporary measure. Now they're being asked to take another cut and give up other benefits. For good.

Management's ultimatum of "Take it or leave it" is just indicative of how poorly the company is being managed.

Doesn't matter. If the company closes, they get unemployment.

A better question is, "Can striking workers get other temporary employment until their dispute gets settled?"

A unionised public employee, a private sector worker, and a Banker are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The Banker reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the private sector worker and says, 'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie."

if your on the side of the bosses you're kinda screwed in the head (not you personally just folk in general)

that's like going to a casino standing next croupier and when the house wins gut laughing at the punter "dealer bust your a$$ ya loser house wins again *****"

the cards are stacked against the working man

The strike doesn't cause the company to go out of business...

They are striking because the company is pants. So it is the company's fault if they go bust. The answer to your question is therefore "yes".