Who Does New York’s New Union Law Actually Protect?

So there has been a lot of chatter and discourse online about this new law that New York has taken upon itself to copy from Oregon.

Previously, you know, it was a bill, obviously.

Now it's a full law, which stinks because it's a very blatantly false picture of what the Freedom Foundation does.

But what this law is, is it makes it illegal to falsely impersonate a union representative And it gives the state attorney general's office broad powers to investigate, subpoena and fine any personal organization, including out of state groups like the Freedom Foundation, like ours, for communications that are deemed to be impersonations.

Fox News and a couple of the news outlets, many other at this point, have reported on it.

And critics of this law are calling it pure censorship, which is very accurate.

This whole law, as I said, is based on a blatantly false picture of what the Freedom Foundation does.

The mailings our outreach team sends out and the items that are created for our door-to-door canvassers to use very clearly state that we are not with the union.

This law is what happens when public officials who ideally want to put the public's best interests close to their heart choose to side with public sector unions and protect their power instead of protecting the rights and the information that is available to public workers.

Now, I do want to say sometimes I play devil's advocate because I think talking about the other side of the argument can help strengthen our argument.

I think when you look at it at a very logical, overarching perspective, sometimes playing devil's advocate can help strengthen the argument.

I think that's present here.

Sometimes the interests of workers and unions can overlap.

And one bill, legislation, piece of law, agenda, whatever you want to say, can serve both.

Sometimes, sometimes that happens.

However, this is not one of those times.

Not by a long shot.

This law lets the attorney general investigate and find groups that tell workers about their options and the truth regarding their paychecks and their workplace and representation options.

You know what? Yeah, I'd say that pretty squarely fits in the camp of only protecting the interests of unions and not workers.

There's no overlap here.

But what you need to be aware of, I think, along with that, is that there are a lot of people who can see this bill for what it is.

Very clearly, Kathy Hochul has decided to copy the information and what was used to create the law that's in Oregon.

Like, very, very clearly.

There's no way around it.

That is what this is.