Squeezing Out Freelancers

After the PROact failed in Congress for the third time, a new union campaign emerged to enact the PROact piecemeal. Two California bills passed to end state use of independent contractors for court translations.

As reported in the Orange County [CA] Register, legislators friendly to unions approved two bills forbidding state courts from using IC translators (AB432) and paying unions to train replacement translators to work as state employees (AB1032).

Here is the OCR article, clear and concise.

Bills from Mike Fong and Blanca Pacheco will undermine freelance interpreters-2.pdf

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