Independent professionals and small businesses were hoping to breathe a sigh of relief that President-elect Donald Trump’s win of the presidency would bring an end to the freelance busting by the Democrats and the United States Department of Labor. We were buoyed by the thought that after increasing years of opposition by labor unions and regulatory agencies, we perhaps could finally be free to do our chosen work without threat or reprisal. The nomination of soon-to-be-former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) for Labor Secretary quickly deflated that hope. Trump appears to have made a Faustian bargain with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, who delivered a speech at July’s Republican National Convention, the first time any union boss had appeared at any Republican convention.
As is their wont, labor unions generally throw their lot behind the Democrats….
