“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 …
“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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