Posts tagged AAA
Freelance Busting: ‘Jeopardize Public Safety’
September 15, 2025 // More than 885,000 drivers in New Jersey called AAA in 2024 to request emergency roadside assistance. That’s according to the public comment that AAA filed opposing the Department of Labor & Workforce Development’s proposed independent-contractor rule. This comment states that the proposed rule “threatens the viability of AAA’s business model in New Jersey, which will jeopardize public safety on New Jersey roadways.”
Commentary: The 2025 Battle of Trenton; Video
June 25, 2025 // The opposition to independent contractors was frustratingly predictable. Most of it, as usual, came from unions—including the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and IBEW. Others who testified against us were a representative of the union-affiliated National Employment Law Project (you may recall us crushing them in Congress last month), a couple of union-side lawyers, and a guy from the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University, whose stated mission includes building unions.