This is bad news for all the independent contractors- badly written law that robs us of our 100/hour jobs and fucks over our small biz employers
Ca has been fucked over by the AB5 law and this is same but nationally.
good news is it created a bipartisan effort to repeal it in CA… bad news is it hasn't worked.
lets see what happens in the Senate.
The House just passed a sweeping and bipartisan bill to boost unions
Its chances aren’t looking good in the Senate, with the big hurdle of the filibuster.
The US House of Representatives has officially passed a sweeping, bipartisan labor bill, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Cheered by unions and disliked by businesses, the bill likely cannot pass the Senate without filibuster reform.
The bill passed the House Tuesday night on a vote of 225-206. The bill gained the support of five House Republicans, and was co-sponsored by three Republicans: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of New York, and Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey.
If enacted into law, the PRO Act would be one of the most dramatic changes to US labor law in decades. One of the bill’s most significant provisions is a policy that would override state right-to-work laws that weaken unions by letting unionized workers not pay dues. It would also create tougher penalties for employers who interfere in employees’ efforts to unionize.
Should these penalties work as designed, they would remove a major barrier to unionization, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, told Vox in a recent interview.
“It’s the workers facing an uneven playing field when they try to assert their right to form a union,” Appelbaum said. “The employer has all sorts of opportunities to intimidate workers and to interfere with their desire to have a fair choice.”
moar at:
https://www.vox.com/22319838/house-passes-pro-act-unions?fbclid=IwAR0UJ3MfDNgmL2Rt-9rKlafeowAwXRYzIPtyU6iw2CN41umvJgKNNNzO3gA