By wiping out freelance jobs, laws like AB 5 make employers rely more heavily on employees who work only for them, on their premises. If people are chained to their job, and forced to congregate in one place, it is easier for a union organizer to organize them into a union local. As Richard Day, a supporter of AB 5, observes, “There are few bigger threats to unions than allowing workers to not be employees,” but rather independent contractors.
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