Honestly, if the only thing you could do with it was enact really heavy fines for management (and only management) ULPs, that in and of itself would probably do a lot.
"back wages to employees, and twenty-times back wages as a punitive fine paid to the NLRB" would shut down smaller-scale union-busting right quick.
This, and get the NLRB and DOL to do joint notice-and-comment rulemakings adopting the ABC test.
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This is the fundamental issue, all their rhetoric about "protecting freelancers" aside. Folks want to protect their bread, and all power to them, but don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
Anyway, this isn't to say that American politics isn't a hellscape, but so is European politics outside of like, Portugal and Ireland.
Also, gotta love Italian politics, where three of the top five parties are quite directly fascist and one is a fash-curious primal scream of populist rage.
Stewart-Cousins is extremely well-liked across her caucus, moderates, liberals and socialists. If she's coming out for this, I think this is happening. politico.com/states/new-yor…
Like, arguably a boycott call would be covered by DeBartolo's persuasive handbilling exception, but that was for explicitly consumer boycotts. If businesses get involved, I think there's at least arguably a secondary strike issue.
Anyway, that might explain why the union is making it really clear that they aren't involved.
I knew a fair number of Israelis growing up at religious Jewish summer camp. We had madrichim from Israel, mostly folks relatively recently out of the army. I had Israeli staff as counselors, coworkers and supervisors.
One of the first things that pushed me towards an anti-Occupation perspective, away from right-wing Zionism and towards liberal Zionism, was their army stories.