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New CA legislature bills promote unemployment
The Los Angeles times is reporting that the California state senate has passed a bevy of bills that will increase the cost of doing business. First, they passed a bill, SB 789, to allow the state equivalent of federal “card check,” allowing farmworkers unions to form without a secret ballot. According to the LA Times, “Instead of holding an election with secret ballots, workers could submit cards, signed by a majority of the workers asking for representation, to state labor authorities.” This is bad policy – and more than that, it encourages bullying tactics from union thugs. How many people are going to refuse to sign a union card if they’re in a union organizer’s home?
Then the state senate turned its attention to the pressing matter of personal trainers. Yes, despite the fact that California is in the midst of yet another budget crisis brought on by overspending, the state senate is worried about whether your work-out guy is licensed. “I was amazed that virtually anyone can call themselves a personal trainer, regardless of their education or lack thereof,” explained Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello), who penned the bill. What next? Licenses for dog-walkers? If an uneducated person can’t do personal training, what can they do?
Finally, there’s SB 120, which bars a bank or person who takes a home in foreclosure from cutting off utility service, changing locks or removing a renter’s belongings to terminate the tenancy. This is simply absurd. If a renter refuses to move out, this bill would allow the renter to squat until a court decided to issue an order. The problem with California real estate is that the turnover isn’t fast enough – homes aren’t hitting the market, allowing prices to bottom out and then, we hope, start to recover. Keeping renters where buyers should be exacerbates that problem, and discourages banks from putting those homes on the market in the first place.
Chief Executive magazine recently ranked California the worst place in the nation to do business. Is it any wonder California’s unemployment rate is far higher than the nation’s unemployment rate? How many more farmworkers and personal trainers will be seeking jobs? And how many more people will fall behind on their mortgages as property values continue to fall?
For more info: Read the LA Times piece. For similar idiocy put forth by the LA City Council, read my piece from yesterday.
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I heard Ray Appleton on KMJ Radio this morning say that the UFW was pressuring the Assembly to pass this bill. The Assemblyman Mendoze threatened that the west side of the Central Valley would get no water without Card Check. Ray's going to talk about it at noon. You can listen online.
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Click on the listen now link at the upper right corner.
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This state is owned by the bloodthirsty unions. They won't quit until they own everything lock stock and barrel.
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