It is easy to anticipate the socialist rhetorical jujitsu to this: they will accuse anti-socialists of being fascists, while sanctimoniously declaring themselves morally superior anti-fascists in solidarity with the oppressed working class.
What we saw during the recent public-comment comment process in New Jersey is that they want to portray independent contractors as victims on par with victims of human trafficking. That's not an exaggeration. That's what source material from one of the public comments against independent contracting actually said
I believe it. What they willfully ignore is the fact that we intrepid freelancers don't want to be victims; we want to be our own bosses.
They need to put us in the right class warfare box to impose their Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat.
Unfortunately, young people have been brainwashed by the Marxist education system to the extent that DSA propaganda sounds like conventional wisdom to them.
The world has been turned upside down while we weren't paying attention, largely because normies lost control of the education system and got shamed into wokeism.
The paragraph claiming the PRO Act is about "forcing everyone to be employees in unions" in order to "create a general strike and shut down business nationwide" is simply not accurate. The bill does change classification rules and union organizing procedures, but it does not require workers to join unions or automatically unionize independent contractors. It's fair to criticize the PRO Act, but it should be criticized for what it actually does.
You left out part of that sentence. It states: "As they have explained their plan to me, forcing everyone to be employees in unions would allow them to create a general strike and shut down business nationwide until they get their laundry list of political demands." This is exactly what the socialists have said.
Nice article. Maybe if Trump is soundly defeated, moderate Demos might come out for us. They'd have to break with unions on our issues, of course, which they might do, come to think of it. I was surprised by our support in NJ. Kudos to you for your part in that.
How do you feel about benefits for independent workers? Unions get a lot of mileage from our not having them, asserting that it's a major reason for classifying us as employees. It's a silly argument, of course. If they think we need benefits, just give them to us. They're managed by software, now, so easy to change. Of course, it would weaken their other arguments against us. I think there's a scam at the heart of the arguments. Your NJ DOL data shows there's certainly no crisis. Maybe they just want our money.
The most recent data I've seen from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says: "Overall, 74.3 percent of workers whose sole or main job was contingent had health insurance coverage from any source, including coverage from another family member's policy, through a government program, or by purchasing it on their own, compared with 84.3 percent of workers in jobs that were not contingent."
So the majority of ICs do have health insurance.
Portable benefits, better access to association plans--basically the whole package of bills the Republicans put forward in the Senate about a year ago would give us all better access to group-rate plans like employees have. It would be nice if Dems would support that too instead of telling us we have to become employees to get decent healthcare
It is easy to anticipate the socialist rhetorical jujitsu to this: they will accuse anti-socialists of being fascists, while sanctimoniously declaring themselves morally superior anti-fascists in solidarity with the oppressed working class.
What we saw during the recent public-comment comment process in New Jersey is that they want to portray independent contractors as victims on par with victims of human trafficking. That's not an exaggeration. That's what source material from one of the public comments against independent contracting actually said
I believe it. What they willfully ignore is the fact that we intrepid freelancers don't want to be victims; we want to be our own bosses.
They need to put us in the right class warfare box to impose their Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat.
Unfortunately, young people have been brainwashed by the Marxist education system to the extent that DSA propaganda sounds like conventional wisdom to them.
The world has been turned upside down while we weren't paying attention, largely because normies lost control of the education system and got shamed into wokeism.
The paragraph claiming the PRO Act is about "forcing everyone to be employees in unions" in order to "create a general strike and shut down business nationwide" is simply not accurate. The bill does change classification rules and union organizing procedures, but it does not require workers to join unions or automatically unionize independent contractors. It's fair to criticize the PRO Act, but it should be criticized for what it actually does.
You left out part of that sentence. It states: "As they have explained their plan to me, forcing everyone to be employees in unions would allow them to create a general strike and shut down business nationwide until they get their laundry list of political demands." This is exactly what the socialists have said.
Nice article. Maybe if Trump is soundly defeated, moderate Demos might come out for us. They'd have to break with unions on our issues, of course, which they might do, come to think of it. I was surprised by our support in NJ. Kudos to you for your part in that.
How do you feel about benefits for independent workers? Unions get a lot of mileage from our not having them, asserting that it's a major reason for classifying us as employees. It's a silly argument, of course. If they think we need benefits, just give them to us. They're managed by software, now, so easy to change. Of course, it would weaken their other arguments against us. I think there's a scam at the heart of the arguments. Your NJ DOL data shows there's certainly no crisis. Maybe they just want our money.
The most recent data I've seen from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says: "Overall, 74.3 percent of workers whose sole or main job was contingent had health insurance coverage from any source, including coverage from another family member's policy, through a government program, or by purchasing it on their own, compared with 84.3 percent of workers in jobs that were not contingent."
So the majority of ICs do have health insurance.
Portable benefits, better access to association plans--basically the whole package of bills the Republicans put forward in the Senate about a year ago would give us all better access to group-rate plans like employees have. It would be nice if Dems would support that too instead of telling us we have to become employees to get decent healthcare