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However, your chances of getting said benefits is pretty much nil.

If you're fired for refusing the promotion, the UI people are going to see that as being misconduct (i.e., insubordination). And hardly anyone who quits, for any reason, gets UI benefits. (Generally the only UI-allowable reason for quitting is when someone has been subjected to egregious harassment and/or discrimination that is based directly on things like his/her race, gender, disability, age and/or religion, and which has rendered his/her workplace intolerable. Nothing in your post indicates that anything like this is going on with you.)
Stop perpetuating myths. I quit and got UI, and it was in no way egregious. It was just "substantially less favorable."

We've also covered the topic of insubordination. It's not always misconduct. When you get hired for a job, you agree to do a set of duties for an amount of money amongst other things. When the employer attempts to change that, and you tell them, "no," it's NOT misconduct because there was never any agreement that you'd ever perform that type of work.

The promotion to a manager may very well be unsuitable for this person or may not meet the prevailing conditions of work for that type of work.