Working people in New Jersey are getting squeezed from every direction.
The cost of groceries, housing, healthcare, utilities, and almost everything else remains too high. Federal policies like tariffs are making countless goods more expensive. And something quieter but just as consequential is happening in the workplace: Union organizers are pushing policymakers to limit our available pathways to achieve the American dream.
For generations — every generation, actually, since the day the United States was founded — we have all had the option to be our own bosses. George Washington worked for himself as a land surveyor. Alexander Hamilton opened his own shop as a lawyer. The tradition of being able to work in whatever ways work best for us has always been part and parcel of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Increasingly, some unionists want a different arrangement: The government should give union organizers unprecedented power to target independent contractors. These unionists want to codify an ever-growing universe of so-called “worker protections” into law that are actually attacks on the ways we can legally earn a living.
That should concern every working person in New Jersey.
One way that unionists are pushing to restrict this freedom right now in our state
is the Department of Labor & Workforce Development’s newly adopted ABC test, which regulators use to determine whether someone should be classified as an independent contractor or a unionizable...
Please allow ads on our site or subscribe It looks like you're using an ad blocker. We rely on advertising to help fund our reporting. Please turn off your ad blocker and refresh the page or you c...