Are You Comparing California to an Occupied Land?

Mike Downey: Are you comparing the golden state to an occupied land? I know it might sound hyperbolic but I think it's true and we can describe just one example of how that's true. In 2019 California's Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill called Assembly Bill 5. It was intended to address exploitation situations where freelance workers independent contractors they're called in the law should have been technically full employees with real hourly pay and work schedules, he says. But instead 70,000 truckers suddenly had two choices go to work for a large transportation company as their employee or get the hell out of California.Downey: A guy named Tom Odom from the Central Valley of California who