Happy Labor Day! Matt Meyer, the Democratic governor of my blue state, celebrated the holiday by vetoing an important bill that would have protected workers from one of the most common forms of wage theft (eg being reclassified as an "independent contractor"). Off to my union picnic!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNV... You’ll either be a union man, or a thug for Phillip Shawe
Here's the public media write-up, which includes some more context of legislators being furious (and add'l news about his random Reefer Madness veto).
I sincerely dislike this guy for many reasons and always have, I voted against him in the primary, but I don't know how we're going to get him out of there.
DE dems seem like the worst kind of institutionalists.
The irony here is that it’s two sets of centrists pitted against each other bc they have diff power based. The Dem leg leaders are sympathetic to the old (white, male, conservative) trade unions; +
Meyer fancies himself a professional & an entrepreneur, & so his allies are the real estate developers and construction firms who dominate the local chambers of commerce, and the PMC folks (passive aggressive anti-labor) who run large nonprofits
It matters, too, that neither of the most powerful forces in DE politics - the corporate defense bar, flush with billionaire cash, and the police, armed & short-tempered - don’t care about this fight, at all. If they did, we’d see Gov and Legislators line up on the same side, as they did in March.