Opinion: Union bill would erode voting rights
Supporters designed the initiative, recall and referendum to counteract the power of railroad barons, but it has led to a variety of results that have at times increased and other times limited the power of special interests.
But modern progressives increasingly dislike California’s system, which is the nation’s most muscular form of direct democracy. Their motives are transparent. These days, the left has ironclad control of the Legislature and the state’s constitutional offices, so more conservative-minded voters and interests have used initiatives to overturn legislative priorities and even limit taxes. The left remains bitter about 1978’s property-tax-limiting Proposition 13.
They’re particularly upset about the passage of Proposition 22 — the ridesharing company-supported measure that exempted drivers for companies such as Uber from Assembly Bill 5, which largely banned companies from employing independent contractors. As the Bee added, they’re also upset at referenda that delayed the implementation of the state’s flavored-tobacco ban and derailed bail reform.
Over the years, labor unions have actually qualified quite a few of the most outrageous ballot measures. For instance, one union has repeatedly qualified a measure that would impose various conditions on healthcare companies that provide kidney dialysis — an effort that union critics claimed was an attempt to help organize their workers.
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