Venture capitalist wanted to split California into six. Now, he wants to gut public unions.
Sacramento Bee / Oct. 1, 2021
A proposed California ballot measure — filed by a Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist who had once proposed splitting the state into six — aims to end collective bargaining for public sector workers.
Proponents of the constitutional amendment could start collecting signatures within the next few weeks to get it on the 2022 general election ballot, according to estimates from the Attorney General’s Office.
They’d need to gather about 1 million signatures in the next six months or so in order to put the measure to the voters.
With billionaire Tim Draper funding the signature-gathering effort, opponents of the initiative are gearing up for a fight, saying the measure fails to recognize the vital roles those such as public health workers and firefighters have played during the pandemic and the recent wildfire seasons.
MORE: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article254630377.html
Yes, that Draper—who wanted to divide California.
From the link: The ballot measure would represent a serious threat to public sector unions, effectively stripping them of a key service they offer to members: negotiating pay and working conditions with government employers.
How Draper spins it: "union bosses have taken California schools from the top to the bottom, they have made it so that there are fewer jobs, more homeless, and people are fleeing the state to work.”
Just what MAGAts want to hear.
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