One of two things is happening in every industry not explicitly exempted from this bill: layoffs en masse, or an industry-wide gambit that it can be safely ignored because it will soon be repealed. The only winners here are lawyers, and they won BIG.
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@LorenaSGonzalez to certain unions — it's pretty obvious that there was organized interest in getting rid of independent truckers, for example, but this was SO transparently corrupt & harmful that a federal judge stepped in.https://www.ttnews.com/articles/temporary-restraining-order-issued-against-california-labor-law …Show this thread -
Sorry Teamsters! Next time pick a goon who's smart enough not to tentatively tank the whole economy in order to criminalize your competition for you.
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The root evil is that there never was any underlying principle. There was a political desire to target Uber because, a priori, what Uber does is "bad." The fact that what Uber does is very hard to distinguish from the way freelance writers and musicians work was not considered.
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Move fast and break things is alive and well
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California now approaches the final telos of Democratic politics, which is “what if we just passed a law saying that everything had to be Good?”
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Gonzalez’s dialog on this has been consistently bizarre. She’s behaving as if it’s just some rules she made up for the office lunchroom not something which affects thousands upon thousands of people with potentially massive legal and financial liabilities.
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It was the plan that got the ACA passed, so, why wouldn’t it work just as well for other things?
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Can we get the same treatment for literally every other demographic marginalized unfairly by targeted, mean spirited legislation in CA? ...asking for a gun owning, petro-car driving, farm watering friend...
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