Fight4Freelancers Minnesota

Fight For Freelancers Minnesota is a nonpartisan, self-funded, ad hoc coalition that stands for the right to choose self-employment. #FightForFreelancers

[Fight4Freelancers Minnesota @F4FMinnesota]

To date #FightForFreelancers have helped to

✅Shred AB5
✅Pass Prop 22
✅Defeat the ProAct in the Senate
✅Stop @ActSecJulieSu from being confirmed
✅Stop AB5-like laws from becoming law in such states as NY, NJ, and others

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

Thank you to @ConCatShow for having me on to talk about independent-contractor policy, and about how our freedom to work in whatever way works best for us should not be a partisan issue.

Great topic for Labor Day!

https://t.co/AaSYMfqpZb

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

“The breadth of testimony about AB5’s effects suggests a profoundly negative impact on many sectors of the workforce that are disproportionately minority and/or female.” https://t.co/bBQjCXpD3j

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

“Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) asked Wolfson to highlight how regulation in California has attacked independent contractors and how the Biden-Harris DOL tried to enact these regulations on a federal level.” https://t.co/TOtARc7iPQ

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

For several years, the California State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated the impact of California’s Assembly Bill 5, the anti-independent contractor law.

That California advisory committee on AB5 was not able to release a timely report about all the hours of testimony they heard.

Individual members of the committee say they were told that if they issued their own statements in the absence of a committee report, they would be failing to comply with rules and policies.

@PacificLegal just published a report that five committee members wrote.

In that report, the committee members state (calling themselves the SAC):

"At least five members of the SAC think the compelling evidence the SAC gathered should not be ignored. We therefore would take this opportunity to inform the Commission and the public about the evidence of disproportionate and unfavourable impact of laws like AB5 and to urge further study.

"The evidence and testimony the SAC gathered is particularly timely and important given renewed attention to the federal PRO Act, including President Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who voted for the PRO Act when in Congress, to lead the Labor Department."

[Note from me: Chavez-DeRemer never voted on the PRO Act when she was a member of Congress. She did, however, co-sponsor the bill, and her support for it was a major part of the questioning at her confirmation hearing for the U.S. Labor Secretary job.]

Read the report here:

https://t.co/Mokev01uzg

[Fight4Freelancers Minnesota @F4FMinnesota]

We are grateful for our #fightforfreelancers fam fighting against oppressive #freelancebusting everywhere.

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

New from me:

As we all head into the Thanksgiving holiday, I'm giving thanks for the freedom to be my own boss and aspire to achieve my dreams.

https://t.co/qYrGWpHxqx

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

Independent-contractor policy is the No. 2 issue in my inbox this morning from The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board.

Second only to tariffs. Above Israel.

Maybe we’re finally at the part of this saga where Americans nationwide start to understand the ramifications of what us independent contractors in hundreds of professions have been fighting to try and stop for years now.

[Liya Palagashvili @MissLiyaP]

🚨 New @BLS_gov data on independent contracting is here! Independent work is thriving—explore growth, worker preferences, and demographic trends.
📷Check out our latest #substack with insights from me and @RevanaSharfudd1
.📷https://t.co/CvkijKfwYr

#LaborMarket #GigEconomy

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

"The 2023 data shows that 80.3% of independent contractors prefer their current arrangement over traditional, W-2 employment, an increase from 79% in 2017."

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

Still just as true today as yesterday:

“The biggest problem that I see with this policymaking is that there are no independent contractors at the table … to defend ourselves against government overreach.”

@GOP⁩ can still change this for the better. https://t.co/En8z85J7fY

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

This would not be good for independent contractors. She supports the #PROAct

[Freelancer-Dispatch #FightforFreelancers @FreelancerDisp]

@davincidiva @realDonaldTrump @JDVance Freelancers have battled for years under unionist @ActSecJulieSu, who refuses to work for the entire US workforce, only the 10% who belong to unions. Freelancers bring in $1.2 trillion into the economy. Another unionist at the @USDOL would continue the war on us.

[Freelancer-Dispatch #FightforFreelancers @FreelancerDisp]

@davincidiva @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @ActSecJulieSu @USDOL @GOPMajorityWhip @SenateGOP Lori Chavez-DeRemer is Julie Su 2.0. The GOP has worked tirelessly to stop Su's relentless attacks on freelancers. Chavez-DeRemer will only work for unions, not the entire workforce, of which 45% are happy freelancers who just want to be left alone.

[Lisa Rothstein @davincidiva]

Hey @realDonaldTrump @JDVance please remember America’s 72 Million #freelancers by CHOICE when choosing Labor sec’y.
Unions should not be allowed to hold a monopoly on all labor.
Independent labor matters too.
And we demand to *remain* independent!
#FightForFreelancers
#NoPROAct as currently written

[Fight4Freelancers Minnesota @F4FMinnesota]

The ABC Test was a bad idea in California's AB5, and it was a bad idea in the national PRO Act, something @LChavezDeRemer wholeheartedly supported. We will continue to fight #freelancebusting wherever it arises.

[Dawn Papandrea @DawnPapandrea]

Exactly! We’re not anti-union by any means. My husband and both my parents are in unions. But I, as a freelancer, just want to be left alone!

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

This is very worrying. The PRO Act undermines right-to-work laws and independent contracting.
Both are important to *individuals'* freedom to engage in the labor market as they wish. If I want to work for an employer outside of a union or as an ind. contractor, I should get to.

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

@Alicia_Smith19 Support for the PRO Act should be disqualifying for any GOP Administration, even a MAGA one.

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

America has 14 million union members.

As many as 72 million Americans earn some or all of our income as independent contractors.

All lawmakers in the @GOP and @TheDemocrats should represent the independent-led workforce of 2024, not the union-led workforce of 1950.

[Kim Kavin @thekimkavin]

This is the problem with #FreelanceBusting

Many of us choose to be our own bosses because it gives us higher incomes, safer conditions and a better life. Nobody should be making labor policy in this country who thinks the only way to achieve those things is in a union job.