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Yes it's basically the main goal of organized labor to support the best interest of workers by any means, including legislative means. How on earth else are wo
by skohan 5y ago
Yes it's basically the main goal of organized labor to support the best interest of workers by any means, including legislative means. How on earth else are workers supposed to get legal protections against the multi-billion dollar corporations which are trying to give them the worst deal possible?
- harles 5y agoExcept this was a pretty overt land grab to expand the unions into new territory. How did AB5 support existing union members?
- skohan 5y agoFrom their point of view, they might see the rise in a gig-work as a threat against their workers. After all, if Uber and Lyft are allowed to replace unionized taxi drivers with underpaid "private contractors" with no labor rights, what's to stop someone else from doing it with other industries?