“In particular, 80% of voters or more want the government to use leverage to bring down costs of essential #drugs or treatments such as insulin or inhalers, investigate #bigoil companies for inflating #gas prices, enforce #RightToRepair rules, ban #noncompeteagreements , and break up monopolies like #ticketmaster

#Inflation #HarrisWalz #election2024

As Lazare points out, bondage fees are basically just a wrinkle on an existing scam: #NoncompeteAgreements, which bind *one fifth* of the US workforce, prohibiting workers from switching to a competitors' shop. While noncompetes are lauded as a way of protecting the assets of "knowledge" firms, the vast majority of workers chained to their jobs with noncompetes are low-waged workers in the fast-food sector.

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Two years ago, Khan began an in-depth investigation into the use of #NonCompeteAgreements in the US labor market.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2020/01/non-competes-workplace-examining-antitrust-consumer-protection-issues

This investigation created an extensive evidentiary record on the ways that workers are harmed by these agreements, and collected empirical observations about whether industries really needed noncompetes to thrive.

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Over the Christmas break, even as the airline industry was stranding Americans far from their families, Khan proposed a rule to ban #NoncompeteAgreements, which are widely used to prevent low-waged workers like fast-food cashiers from quitting their jobs and seeking better pay from competitors:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-to-ban-indentured

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