Posted on 11/04/2020 10:39:06 AM PST by RandFan
They may be liberal, but Californians voted down a series of left-wing policy proposals such as rent control and allowing government racial discrimination in the name of diversity. They also approved a ballot initiative, Proposition 22, to exempt key gig economy companies such as Uber and Lyft from punitive regulations which had nearly driven them out of the state.
A resounding 58 percent of voters voted in favor of the ballot measure to override, in part, a California regulation passed in 2019 which mandated that ride-sharing drivers, freelancers, and other independent contractors must be classified as full-time employees. This would mean they have to be paid minimum wage, required benefits, and so on.
Why can’t Uber just hire their drivers as full-time employees? It undermines their very business model.
“Uber would only have full-time jobs for a small fraction of our current drivers and only be able to operate in many fewer cities than today,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi explained. “Rides would be more expensive, which would significantly reduce the number of rides people could take and, in turn, the number of drivers needed to provide those trips. Uber would not be as widely available to riders, and drivers would lose the flexibility they have today.”
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What about the proposal for restoring racial quotas to determine public hiring and school admissions?
losing/lost.
CA voters sometimes have more sense on the propositions, but hate the R next to the name.
The states a mess and they can’t figure out why.
Occasionally Californians get it right.
More freedom, less regulation!
Gee, sounds like CA moved to the right against tyranny while AZ legalized pot...hmmm
Did that legislation affect you UnixGeek? I’m pleased to see they voted it out along with rent controls.
That lost too according to the article.
Voters saw past the Leftist language in the ballot proposal - “improving ‘diversity’ “ is affirmative action and it is not non-discrimination; and as it is the California Constitution says NO discrimination.
There is absolutely no reason the GOP can’t be a force in California. They just lack the will.
So they are sane brainless Marxists. How does that work?
Life is so much simpler as a bought and paid for compliant RINO rather than fighting.
“CA voters sometimes have more sense on the propositions, but hate the R next to the name.”
Excellent observation of the funny reality of California Voters.
From prop 13 to these latest wise voting options, the state is definitely loaded with schizophrenic voters.
We even voted Gray Davis and Rose Bird out of office.
Yet, we will often not vote for republicans at any level in a large part of the state.
We need another Reagan out there - a “great communicator”.
I see Darrell Issa made it back to Congress. He took 52% of the vote (District 50).
Correction: CD-50 not called yet. So who knows
Uber and Lyft were the most famous but so many employers and employees would be screwed by this.
A close friend is a stay at home mom who does book keeping for two small businesses mainly to have her skills sharp once the youngest hits college. One is as needed and the other once every other week. She’d lose out as I don’t think either business could afford her as an “employee.”
Think of script writers and other independent contractors in entertainment - how many of them were screwed?
Great! That was specifically designed to keep Asians out of higher education and the UC system in particular.
As a UC Berkeley alum, I think the fact a lot of Asians now go there actually has improved the student body and atmosphere of the campus greatly. Also that there seem to be a lot more international students, which is cool also. You have a lot of students who are actually now going there to study and learn and want to do normal college things, not spend all their time smoking pot and demonstrating. Granted, I haven’t set foot on the campus for several years, but it seemed so much nicer the last time I was there and I enjoyed seeing normal students walking around, and students from all over the world.
So here I am saying real diversity is a great thing, and yet all of the alums of my era would immediately denounce me as a racist.
... until somehow the supreme court declares their resolution illegaly like they did the gay marriage thing back then.
“So here I am saying real diversity”
“Diversity” achieved through individual merit of “diverse” persons is natural diversity of interest + merit, regardless of how it meets or fails to meet some political definition of a necessary level diversity.
What there is in education is not any fault of SAT type tests or discrimination against applicants.
Where there is fault it is in the K-12 education systems in their failure to well educate folks before they apply to college. Yet, to be fair to them, there are social reasons (not “racial”) (more family life & culture) for why some folks have not buckled down when attending K-12 schools and thus failed to make their own necessary efforts to obtain academic merit. Some of that cannot be improved by the K-12 schools alone. Either way the education problem to solve is mostly before the individual applies to college.
That only covers getting into college.
But academia at the college level has to be worked on to rid itself of its extreme Leftist bias and its construction of classes that have nothing to do with education and are just pure indoctrination.
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