Let Us Work California

A freelancer-led ballot initiative to repeal #AB5 and restore the Right to Earn a Living in California.

[Let Us Work California @LetUsWorkCA]

Join us at https://t.co/BCtJ2dj3fx.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

Join the freelancer-led ballot initiative to repeal #AB5 and restore the Right to Earn a Living: https://t.co/CnOFUaPeKF

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

First Newsom’s backers call the electoral process a coup and now special interests are trying to overturn Prop. 22. Is there anyone subject to more abuse than the California voter?

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

On Monday a court rebuked our imperious Governor. On Tuesday the people of California rebuked our wayward Legislature, overriding the most corrupt law it's ever passed. This is just the beginning - stay and fight!

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

Do I love that the ridesharing initiative (Prop. 22) is massively funded by a few companies? No. But a lot more money was spent buying the Legislature and Governor who made the initiative necessary.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

The initiative to keep Uber and Lyft in California (Prop. 22) now has bipartisan backing in the Legislature. If it passes, support for the remnants of #AB5 could quickly collapse.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

California politicians not only shut down Uber and Lyft, but destroyed livelihoods in hundreds of professions.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

I'm bringing the #AB5 Repeal Amendment to the Assembly Floor next week. Please *retweet* and contact your Legislator.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

The Assembly will vote on a full #AB5 repeal in August. I'm working on the vehicle now.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

It's just astonishing that on top of everything else right now, #AB5 continues to steal the life's work of people like David.

https://t.co/AUChqxFiGW

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

#AB5stories, Lynn: "I'm a transcriptionist. I work from home and love it. I'm not able to work outside the home now and wouldn't want to. I choose what work I want and when to work. After #AB5, the companies I work with had to cut off their CA workers. We lost our livelihood."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

#AB5stories, Danielle: "I just lost my main source of income because they didn’t want to make me an employee to follow #AB5. My other side jobs I use to sustain myself are freelance gigs that are on my own accord and I enjoy. This law will cause me to lose my home."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

#AB5stories, Marsha: "I lost my job of 12 years as a medical transcriptionist because of #AB5. Many in this profession value the flexibility in hours and working from home more than employee status. Now I have no money at all."

[Jennifer Oliver O'Connell @asthegirlturns]

Before #AB5 we had the ability to craft our work around our children. We enjoyed this flexibility; AB5 destroyed it. If "this is a growing concern", @LorenaAD80 would never have passed a law that hinders mothers, especially single mothers. #hypocrite #RepealAB5 #LorenaHatesMoms

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

#AB5stories, Susan: "I've worked as a court reporter since 1992. #AB5 has upended my career. I WANT to be independent. I can work with up to 30 agencies a year. Some I only work with once. I want to set my own hours, what depositions I choose to report, where I choose to work."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

#AB5stories, Marina: "I'm a certified court interpreter. I've been very happily freelancing for 15 years. I can choose which agencies to work with, and work as much or as little as I want to spend time with my 3-year-old. #AB5 is destroying my wonderful work/life combo."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

"That's what the money is for, specifically—to go after small businesses and independent contractors at a time when they're struggling more than they ever have before," Kiley told the Washington Free Beacon. #AB5

https://t.co/6hYaywXT94

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

This quote from an #AB5 witness could be inscribed on the dome of our State Capitol: "These unions controlled my testimonies, got stories out of me, and then tossed me out. It was payday for them, not to help domestic workers."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

Governor Newsom's #AB5 denialism ("I'm not sure those jobs were killed") becomes even more preposterous as each new jobs report shows us worse off than almost every state.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

#AB5stories, Marion: "I'm a freelance translator and have clients who suspended all working relationships with California translators because of #AB5. Add COVID-19 and my income is down nearly 60% from last year. Repealing AB5 would take at least one of these strains away."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

1 in 6 Californians remain unemployed. Yet every proposal we offered to jumpstart economic recovery evaporated: NOL carrybacks for small businesses, tax exemptions for PPP loans, workplace flexibility, liability protections, PAGA reform, #AB5 repeal, historic regulatory relief.

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

Gov. Newsom is celebrating the Supreme Court decision on LGBT workplace protections. Yet when LA Blade told him about a loss of work in the LGBT community from #AB5, he dismissed their plight. For this Governor, social justice ends where the influence of special interests begins.