Empowering Striking Workers Act of 2025
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 53
- Latest action
- Sep 8, 2025
What it does
The Empowering Striking Workers Act of 2025 would amend the Internal Revenue Code and the Social Security Act to allow individuals unable to work due to a labor dispute—such as a strike, lockout, or indirect effects of such disputes—to receive unemployment benefits as if they were unemployed. Eligibility would begin on the earlier of: 14 days after a strike starts, the start of a lockout, the hiring of permanent replacement workers, or the end of the dispute when the worker becomes unemployed. The bill also exempts these individuals from standard work availability requirements for unemployment claims. It affects workers engaged in labor disputes and modifies federal unemployment insurance rules to extend coverage to them under specified conditions.
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