A venture capitalist from southern California soon will begin gathering signatures that, if successful, would put the abolition of all public employee unions on the ballot.
Tim Draper, an investor with a track record of supporting successful technology startups, filed a ballot initiative with the attorney general’s office in Sacramento that would put an end to what he called “anathema to being a free country.”
Quite simply, the ballot measure would abolish collective bargaining laws for public employees in California.
“No public employee shall have the right to form, join, or participate in the activities of a public employee labor organization for the purpose of representing said employees on matters of employer-employee relations,” his proposed change to the state constitution reads.Draper, who filed his ballot initiative Monday, has been the driving force in trying to split California into multiple states in an attempt to better represent regional differences.In the initiative’s preface, Draper […]
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