In Joe Biden’s America, Big Labor privilege and power take precedence over workers, even union workers. The latest example is Biden’s nomination of Julie Su, a pro-Big Labor radical, to be the secretary of Labor.
Su left a trail of economic destruction in her wake as she rose through the ranks of California’s labor department, and is now poised to direct California-style destruction to the entire country if approved to lead America’s labor bureaucracy.
As secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Su was notorious for cracking down on independent contractors through her aggressive enforcement of Assembly Bill 5. AB5 subjects workers to a stringent “ABC test” to determine their employment status, such that many independent contractors were forcibly reclassified as full employees.
Most independent contractors say they do not want to become employees, and value the flexibility independent contracting affords. In the wake of AB5’s passage, more than one million freelancers lost work. To quell public outrage, the California legislature carved out scores of professions from the draconian legislation so that it no longer applied to musicians, translators, writers, photographers and many others.
BIDEN’S NIGHTMARE LABOR NOMINEE UNDER FIRE FROM SMALL BUSINESSES, CONTRACT WORKERS
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has suggested that AB5’s sponsors and enforcers may have had no legitimate policy objectives in mind when granting exemptions to AB5, and instead acted out of “animus” by targeting companies that facilitate vast swaths of independent contracting.
Unlike independent contractors, traditional employees are subject to unionization. In non-Right to Work California, unionized workers can be forced to pay union dues as a condition of getting or keeping a job. Can you smell the money? Union bosses can and so can the politicians that enable them.
AB5 represents a potential financial boon to the union boss special interests…
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