More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
For radicals, to unionize is to come together to use direct action to forward a common goal at work. This is what the knights of labor and the IWW meant.
For most Americans, it means to give a mass-membership non-profit the right to bargain an employment contract on your behalf within the framework of US contract and labor law
This second thing is a legal right which can be given or taken, and it is the legal right Newsome just gave to contractors.
Its a difference in what it means to unionize
For radicals, to unionize is to come together to use direct action to forward a common goal at work. This is what the knights of labor and the IWW meant.
For most Americans, it means to give a mass-membership non-profit the right to bargain an employment contract on your behalf within the framework of US contract and labor law
This second thing is a legal right which can be given or taken, and it is the legal right Newsome just gave to contractors.