Press Associates Union News Service at People’s World reports the Republican House Majority on the Education and the Workforce Committee - ideologues for whom “Labor” in its title was a dirty word so they removed it - has attacked Workers again.  This time, they approved House Joint Resolution 116, the equivalent of a law if a President signs it, that would abolish the Biden Administration Labor Department’s new rule that makes it much tougher for shady businesses to misclassify their Workers as “Independent Contractors.”  The Committee OK’d it on a party-line vote late last month, just before Lawmakers skipped town for another of their many two-week recesses.  In its place: A Trump-era rule which gives those bosses a much freer hand and lets them deprive Workers of the right to organize, while cutting “labor costs” for the crooks in half, one estimate says.  It would also enshrine the Anti-Worker Trump rule - forever.  Under that Trump rule, when a Worker is misclassified as an Independent Contractor, the Worker must pay both the boss’s share and the Worker’s share of Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes.  The Worker would not be able to get jobless benefits or Workers’ Comp and the Worker’s boss can pay the Worker below minimum wage, with no overtime pay.  Needless to say, Unions and their allies want to keep the new Biden rule, which curbs the Corporate Class’s exploitation.

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