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As with minimum wage laws, these mandatory benefits and high administration costs will lead to increased unemployment. The very workers the bill purports to protect will suffer. And there’s no indication these measures will improve working conditions or prevent exploitation and abuse.
But none of that matters to the bill’s endorsers. The list is a virtual tour of the organized Left that includes AFL-CIO, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Domestic Workers United, SEIU, Gloria Steinem, Socialist Party USA, Students for a Democratic Society, and Working Families Party (an ACORN front group).
Another supporter is Frances Fox Piven, one of the sociologists responsible for the Alinsky-inspired Cloward-Piven strategy to intentionally collapse the welfare system and usher in a socialist revolution. Hmm. What interest could Piven possibly have in legislation that’s likely to put domestic employees out of work and onto the public dole? I’m guessing her involvement has nothing to do with a lifelong admiration of nannies.
One of the lead organizers pushing the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights is Ai-Jen Poo, a co-founder of Domestic Workers United. Her mission as a community organizer is “to build a base that has the power to drive a real progressive agenda that’s to the left of what the Democratic Party is willing to settle for.” And it’s worth noting her strategy:
We need to build stronger connections between the social movements and the labor movement.… That means that we need to understand and engage with labor’s agenda, and we also need to push labor to take on social justice issues from the various vantage-points that the working class experiences them.
Ah, yes, social justice organizers scratching Big Labor’s back and vice versa. What a shock. But what of the nannies, eldercare workers, and housekeepers? Who will scratch their backs (and pay their union dues) once they’ve outlived their usefulness as pawns in the Left’s class war?
