SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a as he prepares himself for a possible run for the presidency. In March, he launched a “” and toured some Southern “red” states, where he vowed to stand up against Donald Trump and other Republican “authoritarian leaders.” While he’s not wrong about the former president’s anti-democratic impulses, he needs to spend more time looking in the mirror.
During the COVID-19 public health crisis, Newsom was perhaps the nation’s most aggressive governor in terms of grabbing executive powers — and using them in ways that often had little to do with the pandemic. One Republican lawmaker compiled a 138-page of more than 400 executive actions that Newsom took. It sometimes required the courts to rein him in. Now he is taking a back-door approach to labor regulations that circumvents the democratic process.
Often functioning as a wholly owned subsidiary of the state’s muscular labor unions, Newsom continues to push far-reaching labor-rights laws that transfer power from private business owners to state officials. Last summer, he signed another “landmark” labor law that is based on the European model of “sectoral bargaining.” — known as the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act — creates a fast food with 10 members appointed by the governor and our left-wing Legislature.
Per the Assembly , the law would establish “sectorwide minimum standards on wages, working hours, and other working conditions...
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