Daily News | Proposed federal law would allow cash-strapped striking workers to get food stamps
by reaching a contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents about 340,000 UPS workers across the country, including thousands in the Philadelphia region.
The bill’s 13 Senate cosponsors, all Democrats, include Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez . A 1981 law changed SNAP requirements, stating that a household could no longer become eligible for benefits at time when any member of the household was on strike. The law was challenged in federal court and‘’Exercising the right to strike inevitably risks economic hardship, but we are not inclined to hold that the right of association requires the government to minimize that result by qualifying the striker for food stamps,” wrote Justice Byron R. White.
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