“Nate and I share the view that we want to live in a society in which there isn’t a permanent underclass of workers who are treated poorly because of their lack of political or financial leverage, which Prop 22 would create”https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1319293443386920966 …
“Just as unrestrained capitalism during the Industrial Revolution led to negative social welfare consequences, we believe the exemption of gig companies from providing employee benefits would result in suboptimal social welfare”
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“As taxpayers, we are in effect subsidizing the profitability of gig companies that have large independent contractor workforces”
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FDR: “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country”
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‘Prop 22 tries to roll back laws designed to protect workers, to fit their narrative of work. This is nothing new: when the Fair Labor Act was passed, the National Association of Manufacturers decried it as “a step in the direction of communism, bolshevism, fascism, and Nazism.”’
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“Prop 22 is a nearly-permanent set of policies carving out exemptions for a narrow segment of the non-traditional workforce, written by a set of companies with vested interests in preserving the status quo”
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“App-based workers aren’t capable of mustering a tremendous amount of political clout relative to the apps’ executives or investors”
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“Is this the kind of country we want to live in, one in which special interest groups are re-writing and buying their own employment law?”
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“Worker protections and good labor practices don’t just happen, they are hard-fought and won. This November and from here on out, let’s stand with workers.”
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Thank you, Nate D'Anna and Li Jin, for publicly supporting labor rights
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I still wish someone would translate this Dutch government report, because it’s an interesting take on exactly this labor regulation discussionhttps://twitter.com/thijsniks/status/1249564949287849984 …
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