Posted on 02/19/2021 11:07:47 PM PST by John Semmens
Democrats in Congress are advancing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021. If enacted, this bill would ban state right-to-work laws and severely curtail the "gig" economy. In right-to-work states workers are not required to be union members in order to be employed. The "gig" economy consists of individuals working as independent contractors.
Co-sponsor of the bill, House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Robert Scott (D-VA) pointed out that "both the right-to-work and the 'gig' economy impede a union's efforts to organize an employer's workforce. Allowing people to work without belonging to a union undermines socialist solidarity by muddling the identities of the workforce. Our bill would simplify roles by clearly putting people into their proper class—either proletariat or bourgeoisie."
Isabel Soto of the American Action Forum argued that "the so-called 'right to organize' is, in reality, a bid to make union membership compulsory and destroy an estimated 59 million independent contractors. It will reduce gross domestic output by as much as $30 billion per year."
Scott was unmoved by Soto's criticism, saying "just as I expected, the right-wing opponents of collectivism appeal to personal greed in their futile effort to thwart the transformation of this country from capitalism to socialism."
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More members, more dues, union fatcats get fatter! Thats what its always been about!
The headline is not satirical. It is the socialist goal.
Beat me to it.
California and a host of other blue states want to kill the 1099 and SME economy.
Well, this "satire" might just strike a nerve. I bet they're not laughing. We are, of course, in a nervous sort of way.
Thanks, John, for another fine window into the real-ish history of the week.
From 1960s: “We will bury you!”
It is always about power. Money is simply one means of expressing power. Acting as a gatekeeper to employment is another.
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