Losing the labor battle

The longer labor laws stand still, the better corporations get maneuvering around them. In recent years, American companies have become increasingly adept at minimizing the number of workers directly beneath their roofs. Instead of taking on new employees — entitled to health care, disability, and collective bargaining rights — corporations have figured out how to satisfy their labor needs through contractors, staffing firms, and franchises.

In 2015, the Democratic-controlled National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided to nudge labor law into closer alignment with this new reality.

At the time, a national chain (like McDonald’s) was only considered the “joint-employer” of workers at its independently owned franchises if the larger corporation exercised “direct and immediate” control over those workers. This rule had three major — and majorly negative — implications for America’s fast food workers:

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P.S.

“Five, ten years from now — different party,” Donald Trump told Bloomberg Businessweek in 2016, explaining how he would change the GOP. “You’re going to have a worker’s party.”

One year from then, the Republicans remain a party for bosses.

Which is why, barring the possibility that we'll be in a dictatorship by then, "you're going to have a worker's party." It just won't be the GOP.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.