photo: Congressman Mark DeSaulnier
Local Congressman Mark DeSaulnier this week introduced the Justice for Local Communities and Workers Act (H.R. 9305), a bill that “cracks down on corporate greed following Elon Musk’s unjustified mass layoffs at Twitter,” according to DeSaulnier’s Office.
Specifically, the bill would require large corporations to evaluate, consider, and mitigate the impacts any possible closure or downsizing would have on the local workforce and economy.
“While big corporations rake in record profits, local communities and their employees are treated as disposable rather than the engine of their growth, as we saw recently in billionaire CEO Elon Musk’s haphazard firing of over 7,500 Twitter employees,” said DeSaulnier. “With more layoffs expected in the tech industry, by expanding and strengthening existing law to protect workers from such unfair layoffs, this bill would ensure CEOs like Musk are held accountable and that the balance of power is restored to the American workforce.”
“The Justice for Local Communities and Workers Act would build on existing laws to better prepare and support workers in these situations, better help states and localities provide services for dislocated workers, and identify and prepare for changes in the local labor market. Federal law currently only requires big corporations to provide 60 days notice to affected employees, states, and localities if they choose to shut down or do mass layoffs, an unreasonable amount of time for working Americans to prepare,” according to DeSaulnier.
Mark, you are such a fool.
You already won another term.
Go sit in your office and stay out of people’s way.
From the Babylon Bee: “Fired Twitter employee applies for her first real job”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-voQsFY6SE
I watched that. Some funny sh!t right there. But probably not too far from the truth.
The old Twitter banned Babylon Bee. Elon Musk brought it back. Musk also recently mocked the Democrats for ignoring the FTX crypto scam — https://fxn.ws/3TSUQoD
FTX was one of the top Democrat donors in 2022.
Mark, mind your own business. You are out of your league. How did this guy get elected again?
It’s always fun seeing the lefty liberals get their panties tied in a knot.
Has Mark created even one job anywhere ever as a career politician?
He did when he owned the pizza place and was a Republican,. He got socialism brainwashing.
This from a guy who took a profitable business and ran it into the ground. He’s also one of the poorest members of congress because he can not fathom saving and investing.
This is another “ I read the headlines and now i’ll write a bill” story from this loon .
At least he quite mentioning his fathers suicide. For now .
Don’t tell me someone actually voted for this muddle of pud. More meaningless bluster from the number one, local, cognitively challenged, head-injury survivor and rehabilitation central. Must we … spare us … give me a break … pleeeese! Like he’s an expert on greed!
He won by large margin unfortunately.
DeSaulnier did not have a Republican contender at all.
The other person on the ballot was a Green party candidate. I received a postcard flyer from him. That guy is a certified nut, seriously.
So I just left that section of the ballot blank.
@CROLIQUE:
+1 here
LET’S QUICKLY BREAK IT DOWN BY THE INDIVIDUAL…Mark You Can’t Hold A Candle To Him!
Elon Musk Mark DeSaulnier
Univ of Pretoria 17 years old Bachelor Arts in History College Holy Cross
Univ of Pennsylvania Probation Officer
Stanford Univ Truck Driver
Zip2 Hotel Services Employee
PayPal Restaurants
X.com
SpaceX
StarLink
Tesla
Solar City
Tesla Energy
NeuraLink
The Boring Company
Twitter
LET’S QUICKLY BREAK IT DOWN BY THE INDIVIDUAL…Mark You Can’t Hold A Candle To Him!
Elon Musk: Univ of Pretoria 17 years old, Univ of Pennsylvania, Stanford Univ, Zip2, PayPal, X.com,SpaceX, StarLink, Tesla, Solar City, Tesla Energy, NeuraLink, The Boring Company, Twitter
Mark DeSaulnier: Bachelor Arts in History College Holy Cross, Probation Officer, Truck Driver, Hotel Services Employee, Politician
My money is on Elon. He will hire the best and brightest will removing the entitled snowflakes. He will make the company profitable something Mark has no idea being in government. Lastly, Elon will steer the ship on a new course to Florida where taxes are lower and employees understand they need to show up at work to receive a paycheck. Is Mark still working remotely like most people in government? Oh wait, never mind.
I watched some companies fall down during the pandemic because there are some things that can’t be done remotely. And there are just some people who lack the self discipline to work remote. Movie studios ran into a problem because gear for post is not usually available for home work.
Marky, oh Marky. Elon doesn’t play “participation trophy” games with his businesses. Nor does he practice “affirmative action” BS. If you are of value to a company, you have nothing to worry about. Too bad our government doesn’t work as effective as Elon, but if it did, you would have been working at Taco Bell years ago, along with all the other democrats in California. It’s not good that all you dems have to brag about is highest homelessness, highest inflation, highest fuel costs, free drugs and needles, safe places to get high, and the list goes on. Please, anyone chime in here and tell us ONE thing positive the dems have done for California.
“Please, anyone chime in here and tell us ONE thing positive the dems have done for California.”
Well there is um….
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CRICKETS
Running your mouth is easier than running a Bar & Grill joint!
Go ahead Mark, tell a billionaire how the cow chews the cabbage!
He’s such a joke. How stupid do you find your constituency that you would do this? “Imma exploit you guys by trying to pass a legislation that is in NO WAY enforceable or measureable and thus will do NOTHING to help the issue. But you plebs will see me standing up here Trumping around and get all excited and vote for me again.” He hates his voters so much he won’t engage them as people.
How friggin wonderful, an opportunist out to get some free publicity.
What about the 600 UNION Steel Workers over the hill in Pittsburg, CA ? ? ? ?
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Congressman he replaced actually CARED about UNION Steel Workers ! ! !
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Plan so far, sell the land and scrap the profitable World Class steel plant that has been providing living wage jobs for over 110 years.
hey Mark, do you even know what you’re talking about? Corporate greed? Twitter has NEVER BEEN PROFITABLE. Your virtual signaling belies your stupidity. If anything, Musk is trying to keep the company viable and employ at least some people. If you hadn’t noticed, he’s just culling the woke herd before he moves Twitter to Texas and rehires employees that don’t suffer from SF tech entitlement disease.
Sit down, shut up and go back to just voting how and when you’re told to.
This is a flawed concept.
If the company is publicly traded, their duty is to maximize shareholder value and if that means layoffs, then so be it. Further, many employees have signed contracts spelling out their employment as “at will”. Therefore this is an ill conceived piece of legislation.
The Biden administration is responsible for the lousy economy and subsequent layoffs. Newsom is at fault for driving large employers out of California. They are the root causes, start with them
But is it still a publicly traded company? Didn’t he take it into private ownership.
Yes, at the beginning of this month, Twitter became a private company.
Like, Mark Desaulnier is an expert on greed?
There aren’t enough reasons for business to leave California, Mark has to give them another. Who wouldn’t want to spend millions or billions building a company where getting rid of uneccessary or unproductive employees was eceedingly difficult?
Elon didn’t know what he was getting into, in a lot of dimensions. The top level picture, though, is this:
We are in a culture war that has enveloped every aspect of our culture. Twitter is one of the most powerful tools for creating and shaping political narratives. The left side of the culture war brought Twitter to serve its ends almost totally. Antifa could publiclly organize violent riots there, while people on the right were banned for refusing to use prefered pronouns, for instance. Elon waded into this divide with (at least publicly stated) good intentions of returning Twitter to a more neutral forum, not even to take sides in that culture war. But that means taking one of the most powerful tools of information dominance away from the left faction of the culture war. Ergo, he is now an enemy to the entire left, and they will use any and all means to end that threat. This includes a large majority of his own employees resisting and undermining his goals. Even if Twitter wasn’t massively unprofitable and bleeding millions of dollars per day, a purge would still have been necessary.
Mark doesn’t care about Twitter’s employees. He doesn’t care that Elon has bunged up a lot of his changes so far. He cares that there is someone out there that is a potential threat to the dominance of the left in culture and media. It will be a lot harder to supress the next Hunter Biden laptop, or other news negative for left will to power if a major information institution is not aligned with the left.
So the goal now is to either destroy Musk, destroy Twitter, or subvert and coerce Musk back into line. Everything you are going to see from the Democrats and the media going forward needs to be viewed through this lens.
I thought private corporations get to do what they want because their private companies when they were censoring everybody it was okay
Mark you Jackass, what about all the jobs your party eliminated with Covid shot mandates.
As usual nothing but noise from this fool. Do something productive for a change and “crack down on Government overreach and greed” instead, dipstick.
Fortunately, we are still a country of capitalism and not socialism. Evidenced here is a product of the ignorant California voters. Thank goodness this will have no chance of passing in the HOR…
Like the new Republican House of Representatives is going to give him the time of day.
Last I heard CA was still an “at will” State, the right to fire, a Liberal Progressive looking for headlines
I was gonna leave a less than supportive comment, but looks like y’all covered it for me.
Thanks
What profits has Twitter been raking in? It’s been an inch away from bankruptcy for years.
Let’s hope Congressman DeSaulnier’s bill SB9305 doesn’t pass. Every bill that Congress passes takes away a little more of our rights. This is just another step towards Socialism.
Beginning of every Session, the Dems line up and …. the race is on…. who can author the most new laws, create the most paid committees, launder the most tax funds… in the least amount of time. DeSaulnier is doing a pretty good job holding his own place in the race!
Mark DeSourair and his regular go to habitual grandstanding. He’s a Democrat politician clown show. Utterly pathetic.
Lots of tec companies are losing alot of money and have to lay off workers. True tthere are other companies making record profits. Alot of them can do this because alot of companies have been allowed to buy our their competition. Anti trust laws are on the books, but are not being enforced. This needs to change.
Oh, Mark’s next bill will require that all laid off Twitter employees be given “work” for the IRS as auditors
It’s interesting when Biden killed all those pipeline jobs he and John Kerry proclaimed thousand of new green jobs would soon be available. Learning to assemble solar panels, coding, etc. Newsom beats on his chest that here in the nation state of California we have thousands of “Shovel ready” jobs. He loves that term; uses it all the time.
They believe killing jobs is for the greater good, but only when it’s by their own definition and terms. But remember, one workers shovel digs a hole, while another workers shovel dumps nutmeg on their latte. Both deserve opportunities, neither deserve a free ride.
How in the hell does Mr DeSaulnier know if the layoffs are “justified” in these situations? Does he have intricate knowledge of the everyday happenings? Maybe having 10,000 employees in the first place was unjustified! We don’t need taxpayer services for these people either, other than the standard Unemployment benefits that everyone else gets. They will have to find another job if Unemployment isn’t enough or it runs out. I’ve had to lay people off and Mr. DeSaulnier never tried to get them anything extra. Why now? I’m pretty sure California has plenty of other needs for our tax dollars.
Now, given ALL odds of positive/negative comments on a thread like this, and California being a “blue” state, you would expect to see at least one, just ONE, positive and supportive comment for ole Marky. We have a broken voting system. Until our voting system is secure, these idiots will continue their reign of power destroying our country. This should be on everyone’s top priority to fix. When bobbleheads vote count shot up at 2am, after the ballot stuffers did their job, it was clear who runs the voting systems wins the races.
Mark,
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The only thing your bill will do is force “large corporations” to “evaluate, consider, and mitigate” where they choose to open or expand new or existing facilities. Your bill makes it more likely that corporations won’t open or expand in poor and depressed areas within the United States and makes it more likely they move operations outside of the United States. It appears you didn’t bother to think about the ramifications of your bill on large corporations.
Its supposed to appeal to only idiots.Nobody with a brain is welcome around him.
And the photo is supposed to be some kind of BS statement of equality or”equity.
A white woman on one side of him and a black woman on the other IE “everyone supports this person”
It’s the same thing Biden does.These guys try hard with the visuals because their supporters haven’t progressed past picture book reading.They are also attracted to shiny baubles and rattles and sometimes need burping
And Jayapal on the right side looks like she’s falling asleep.
He’s just another political hack and freeloader trying to get free publicity. It seems these days that running a bar now qualifies one to be an expert on anything business-related….especially when it fails.
He just does what Nancy tells him to do…and that speaks very poorly about those who voted for him. I wouldn’t trust him with anything- or about anything.
Who’s he pointing at, anyway?
Mark deserves the “Opportunist of the Month” award for this one. Being the tech industry I’ve been watching the comedy show that is congress trying to deal with technology. And sometimes it is a horror show because they just don’t understand tech and sometimes that people sitting at a computer writing code is “real work”.
Way to go Mark! Give Elon proof that he needs to move Twitter to a more business friendly state. You dems are pathetic.
Pathetic hack. “Balance of power” my arse. It never existed and never will.
He should be more worried about FTX laundering money to Democrats.
Wow! You all are so nasty with your comments. Why do you have to beat Mark down with regards his dealing with Elon Musk. Wouldn’t an
“I agree” or “I disagree” be sufficient?
Just hateful comments.
Some people are tired of windbag inept and feckless blood sucking self serving politicians.
Perhaps because we’re sick of our tax dollars being used to pay for these f**king dimwits and their dimwitted ideas?
DeSaulnier has nothing better to do. That’s how useless he is.
@E.Bunners…..
1. Ever hear of freedom of speech?
2. There’s no “hate” here; clicking on “like” or “don’t like” doesn’t really allow folks to fully express their opinions.
3. Mark has historically been unwilling to listen to comments that don’t agree with his opinions- that goes back to when he first got involved in politics. Now his opinions are told to him by the democrat party – so he no longer represents his constituents…despite his claims to the contrary.
4. He’s just interested in generating bills and passing laws of an inconsequential nature; remember several years ago when had his “there ought to be a law” program to generate ideas for new laws? He was never interested in the critical issues of the day.
5. The quiet ones here are those that voted for this POS. They’re happy with him. They know he’ll get re-elected because this county is a democrat stronghold and he has name recognition – nothing more. Those that voted for him are unable to use any critical thinking skills and just vote the straight party line.
6. The DNC will continue pushing him because they know he’ll do what the party wants.
Nope – he’s useless. If you have an issue with others’ opinions, I suggest that you just skim past the comments.
Grow up.
Lastly – he’s got no business telling a private company how to run their business….especially a failed bar owner selling overpriced drinks telling a multi-billionaire who employs thousands..
Nope – Marky is WAAAAAY out of his league.
“cracks down on corporate greed …” Mark, check their books, they are losing about $4M a day. Go grandstanding on something else. How about something difficult like FTX?
Congress dictating to private corporations how they should run their businesses, what could go wrong?
Mark is a dangerous far-left politician. We should vote this extremist out.
Thank you, Congressman, for your work for our country.
‘His work for our country.’ What work is that? And specifically, what work is that which has helped the working taxpaying responsible middle class citizen?
He calls the layoffs “unjustified?”
How would he know? His knowledge of business was running a failed bar and restaurant decades ago – not a 21st century tech company with thousands of employees.