h/t Sacramento Industrial Workers of the World

Cite: www.bostonreview.net/forum/james-...

In lieu of or in addition to that, Italy's Cobas model could be very interesting. Those are rank & file unions that primarily struggle via direct action and exist even though there are other unions with sectoral bargaining rights in their industry.

P.S. For workers figuring out the way forward in light of this law, one option would be to try to beat the odds, organize tight, and vote in a union with a more rank & file perspective, which would be Rideshare Drivers United.

While the sectoral bargaining part here may be new, what we have here is an age-old type of United States labor law reform.

Give workers something, for a time, while not fully meeting their needs. Deflate and marginalize a movement for more. Ensure bureaucratic unionism. Safeguard capitalism.

-Beyond one clause that says the union has to be democratic - every union is democratic on paper - there's no pathway for workers to actually control bargaining; let alone do it from organized bases in the communities they are a part of or the cities where they work

-The union victor will, again, be the one who can do get out of the vote work and do it fast, full stop. There's little reason to believe actual organizing will take place. Once the union is certified, it has little incentive to organize or to strike.

-The law fails to explicitly protect the right to strike, chilling organizing in that direction and practically guaranteeing litigation against a strike over the question of whether one is permitted. To be fair, at least the law doesn't explicitly ban strikes.

-Uber and Lyft can direct funds from their treasuries into a union's without the labor group being considered a company union

-The law helps lock in the independent contractor scam which is a key pillar, along with AI and robotics, devastating the global working class today

(The issue is the one union thing, not necessarily who that one union is. That said, it's no secret that SEIU ushered in this deal with Uber and Lyft.)

-The law contemplates empowering a single union for all rideshare drivers in the state — whichever has the most well-funded get out the vote operation.

Workers who would like a different union or who think there should be union competition to amp up bargaining are shit out of luck.

www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/o...

Of course the best quadrant is time to think and good funding hahaha obviously. The public service announcement is fight like hell for time to think.