Why do we have Powerful Democrat politicians like the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, who even went to the Seminary??
And the Powerful Democrat Party women of Feinstein, Pelosi, and Boxer if the weakest, lowest paid workers in this State of California are being cheated by this slow creep of the loss of hourly pay and overtime pay, basic labor law protection !?
Lord knows, wage theft and tip theft are rampant by employers in SF and California. Heard of the famous car valet service in Silicon Valley that steals 1/2 an hour, daily!, from all employees!?
Tower Tours and Super Sightseeing- Greyline have been stealing drivers overtime pay for decades in SF,,, decades. As have other employers. The owner of MTR Western tried to steal all the many West coast offices employees-drivers 401k plan savings! Why hasn't the Grand Jury investigated hourly pay and overtime pay wage theft in SF? Where has the District Attorney been?
Less than 20 years ago, all the airport shuttle drivers in the sf bay area were hourly employees. Now, not one company has hourly and overtime pay employees, just 'independent contractors'. Not one.
What backroom thievery has Sacramento been doing?? All are 'legally' listed as 'independent contractors' who NOW must buy or lease the van, pay for insurance, pay for a mechanic's maintenance, and work for only one employer.
Thus they are really not 'independent contractors'. That is a lie.
But what does the state public care about the struggling working poor,a lack of enough rent control, or the legally insane kicked out of good state mental hospitals in California and now littering our streets as the 'homeless'? Shame on California !! Shame on Jerry Brown for being Governor and doing so little !!
The same basic labor law protection loss is happening from the bottom up, as in the limousine business and the charter /tour bus business as well. (Who cares!) Some SF charter and tour bus drivers have had their legal overtime pay stolen ,illegally, by employers for DECADES.
Yet new companies, like Green Dream Tours, based out of Treasure Island in SF, are legally allowed to pay their drivers a flat $200/job !! Plus the drivers can keep their tips ,instead of 'sharing' them with the employers. This means that these drivers go around SF to pick up passengers at hotels, give a wine tour of Sonoma and Napa, and return to SF to do hotel drop offs, then back to Treasure Island to clean the bus, for maybe a 12-15hr day!! Isn't this a direct violation of SF's minimum HOURLY wage law?
This slow 'pay/job' trend in California MUST BE STOPPED, by true democrats and progressives.
We obviously can not trust either the Democrat Party or the Republican Party !!
