Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is what we call (facetiously) an economic genius. She almost single-handedly cost NYC million of dollars and thousands of jobs by agitating against Amazon HQ2. But she wasn’t done. She just got an entire Company fired.
Yes, the title says new low, and you might ask, well, isn’t the Amazon thing hard to beat? It is. Epic stupid. But no one ever had a job there, not yet. The Company bailed before ever breaking ground. In this new low, she managed to get an entire company of existing employees fired!
Last week, Bright Power decided to fire its staff and farm all the work out to subcontractors instead of maintaining their own workforce. The firing occurred just as the workers were following Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to form a union.
“We have come to the conclusion that our resources have been spread too thin with so many different kinds of work all being done in-house,” Bright Power CEO Jeffrey Perlman said according to VICE.com. “It makes business sense to return to a fully subcontracted solar installation model.”
As the author, our good friend Warner Todd Huston notes in his closing; I guess you shouldn’t take job advice from a socialist.
