Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150906:14:10:00
Unions couldn't negotiate over wages necessarily, so they decided to negotiate over benefits, pensions, health care, then it became the norm, and we then became the only industrialized democracy with this system where you got your health care benefits or any kind of social provisions through the workplace, not through the state. so that system is essentially eroding. but there is another aspect. you're right to point out, if you're classified as an independent contractor, you doe don't have access to those benefits. you also don't have access to employment protections. you actually could be di...