
Murray Amendment to Help 35,000 Boeing Workers Becomes Law
Provides additional 26 weeks of unemployment assistance for airline industry workers

Provides additional 26 weeks of unemployment assistance for airline industry workers

Rebuffs Administration efforts to reduce assistance from 26 to 13 weeks, and to cut eligibility of aircraft manufacturers & suppliers, and airport workers

Murray urges colleagues to stand with constituents on this important issue

6 Senate Appropriations Conferees contend “Any airline relief package must …
recognize the extraordinary needs of the people who have suffered the most from
the industry downturn, our unemployed aviation industry workers”

Additional 26 weeks of unemployment assistance for workers in the airline and related industries; $375 million for airport security improvements