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(14,733 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)this website, so this could get tricky.
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(5,252 posts)...one that Liberals are falling for.
Whats really going on is the desire of businesses to chop wages and benefit costs while also limiting their vulnerability to lawsuits, which can happen when salaried employees are mistreated. The burden of economic risk is shifted even further onto workers, who lose the security and protections of the New-Deal-era social insurance programs that were created when long-term employment was the norm.
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rowing use of contingent workers (in gigs) came when capitalists sought to respond to gains by labor through the early 1970s, and in response to the victories capital won in the rise of the neoliberal era. Because contingent workers were usually not covered by union contracts or other legal safeguards, employers hired them to regain leverage over workers lost when unionized workers gained protection against unjust dismissal, and courts extended these protections to non-union workers under the implicit contract doctrine.
http://ourfuture.org/20140528/cut-throat-capitalism-welcome-to-the-gig-economy
It should be an interesting discussion, but it'll surely be hijacked by the Uber shills here (and or Lyft etc...).
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)I've had trouble figuring why IL Gov Rauner is so damned hung up on Workmans Comp reforms. Seems like such small potatoes in his larger union busting desires. But it's one more piece of the anti-labor puzzle.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is shilling for his multi-millionaire and billionaire cronies, his brother, Hollywood mogul Ari Emmanuel, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos, both of whom, among others, are heavily invested in Uber.
But corporate owned M$M is totally intoxicated on Uber's money and glam marketing, and it's sad to say, so are many liberals.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)The Mayors proposal is a sweetheart deal for Uber, a $50 billion enterprise that doesnt need another giveaway, but a job-killer for hard-working Chicago cab drivers. When corporations like Uber provide the same service as licensed cabs but dont play by the same rules, they undercut public safety and jobs. Last week, our union released a plan to raise $65 million a year by requiring Uber to follow all the same rules as hard-working cab drivers.