Julie Su should be voted down as secretary of labor WashTimesOpEd
On Thursday, a Senate panel chaired by avowedly socialist Vermont politician Bernie Sanders is set to hold a hearing on President Biden’s nomination of tunnel-visioned forced-unionism proponentCapitol Hill’s opposition to Ms. Su’s confirmation bid is mounting for several reasons. There are serious questions about Ms. Su’s competence.
The reality is that surveys over the past few years have shown that the vast majority of actual contractors prefer independent work arrangements that give them the flexibility to set their own hours, work with multiple clients, and, in many cases, own the equipment they use. And just recently, it has become crystal clear that leading AB 5 champions in Sacramento never believed their own rhetoric about the supposed “unfairness” of independent contracting arrangements.
On March 17, a unanimous three-judge panel on the normally union-friendly 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there is a striking lack of evidence that lead AB 5 sponsor Lorena Gonzalez, San Diego Democrat, and other key supporters of this legislation to have any legitimate policy objectives in mind as they steamrolled it through the California Legislature.
On the other hand, wrote President Bill Clinton-appointed Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson in his opinion for the panel, there is credible evidence that Ms. Gonzalez et al. were motivated by “animus” and “pure spite” directed at a handful of gig companies such as
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