Huge chance that the way I, and others, in California, have made our living just fine, without any "help" from government, big corporations, OR labor unions, will shrivel up and die...there's NO WAY independent contractors like me, whether it's in the arts, the legal system, or lots of other fields, are going to be able to make a living as "employees".
How am I going to be employed by ALL OF MY CLIENTS, and for what hours and what salary? I have a career where I may do work for 5 different clients in a 2 hour span, make a good amount of money, then have nothing to do for an hour or more, or a day! And what hours am I supposed to work? In my work I may have a day when I start at 7am and get home at 10pm, then another day when I start at 1 and I'm home by 5, it all depends on the work load. And I start from home and end the day arriving at home, so when do I clock in and out? What if I had no work one day from one client, how are they paying me as an employee to do nothing for them?
If you have creative projects going on also, and you're "employed" by someone, how do you go out on the road with your band for 6 weeks? You don't, that part of you just has to die I guess, the perfect solution in a Trumpian world. As an independent contractor I can go off to pursue other things, as long as I still take care of my clients with able substitutes. And I go when *I* need to go, not when some HR person finally says it's OK (which they won't, who gets 6 weeks off from a job?).
The only thing I can rely on is that in California, the King of the Gig Economy, people will figure out workarounds fast, or, just as a for instance, there's not gonna be many new TV shows or movies being made...you think all of those show crews are employees? Hardly.
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