This truly is the Uberpocaplypse. It will cause massive job losses, and kill already struggling restraints. And it could be the final straw to turning a California Ref.
This will affect millions in California.
This is much bigger than California. This is going to happen in the entire United States if we lose the Senate and Biden is elected. This is all about organized unions trying to take over.
What you don’t get is that this has bigger implications if the Democrats would win the Senate, and the presidency. It would be the first thing they would put into affect nationwide. January 2020 Congress passed the following bill. But since there’s a Republican Senate it went nowhere.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that effectively would nationalize the provisions within California’s AB5 law, which severely constricts the ability of companies to hire independent contractors.
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, introduced in Congress last year, expands the definition of “employee” and “employer” to discourage the classification of workers as independent contractors, with language that mirrors the three-pronged “ABC” test in AB5 to determine independent contractor status. An amendment attached to the bill clarifies that its ABC test “does not preempt any state laws governing the wages, work hours, workers’ compensation, or unemployment insurance of employees.”
The legislation was approved along party lines in the Democrat-controlled House. The bill has a much more difficult road in the Republican-majority U.S. Senate, however, where it is not expected to pass. “It’s a messaging bill that has no chance of passing” in the Senate, said Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., in opposing the bill on the House floor.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-democrats-approve-federal-ab5-legislation
I don’t understand why CA would be singling out this industry. Many companies use contractors to supplement employees and they should be allowed to staff as they see fit.
It’s long past time for some business to decide that it’s not worth the hassle of operating in California.
California Uber Alles!
What about DoorDash and Uber Eats?
Millions of COVID Karen Millenials look to starve to death.
Keep voting Democrat.
Oh, well. They can always stay at home and watch the brush fires approach.
It’s only going to get worse. Watch from the four minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INsmVarPrtc&t=6s
I always expected low margins, high debt or other new internet-based competition to take down Uber and Lyft.
Stupid, meddling, corrupt socialists was always a possibility, but it was further down my list.
My lesson is: Never underestimate the destruction that a regressive can cause!
This is due to the disastrous AB5 law. Biden wants to take it national with the Pro Act.
Now they have millions of slaves in the cities with no means of movement except taxicabs and public transportation. Which the Powers That Be can shut down at any time it suits them.