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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Without the collective action of going on strike, strike pay is essentially the same concept as EI and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone suggest EI gives workers leverage to negotiate better wages.
Anecdotally, I also don’t think I’ve ever met a person who went on strike because they would get strike pay but that’s beside the point.
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EI is a bad analogy here, because you have to get laid off to receive it. It might be functioning as a disincentive to lockouts, but we'd need it to go away to see that.
The strike pay analogy wasn't so much about going on strike to receive strike pay, but about strike pay giving workers the ability to sustain longer and stronger collective actions.