Legislation is Critical to Protecting Worker Free Speech, Keeping Calif. Streets Safe SACRAMENTO, Calif. , Aug.
16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Teamsters-supported bills that would ensure greater freedom of speech and safety for Californians have cleared procedural votes in the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees - as well as their chambers of origin - and now head to floor votes. The bills include autonomous vehicle safety legislation in both Assembly Bill 3061 (AB 3061) and Assembly Bill 2286 (AB 2286), which will head to a vote on the Senate floor, and Senate Bill 399 (SB 399), which contains captive audience protections and will be voted on in the Assembly. "Working people are the backbone of California , and its past time they have equal rights as these greedy corporations try to silence them.
Whether its Big Tech companies trying to push 80,000 pound autonomous trucks onto our roads without a trained driver behind the wheel or union-busting employers attempting to scare workers out of organizing through captive audience meetings, the Teamsters will continue to fight for California workers," said Lindsay Dougherty , Teamsters Western Region International Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division. "We applaud the Appropriations Committee for passing AB 3061, AB 2286, and SB 399 and call on all of California's elected leaders to ensure this legislation becomes law." AB 3061, introduced by Assemblymember Matt Haney (D.