LEVER ACTION: Tell The FTC To Ban Noncompetes

We’ve been reporting and taking action on the Department of Transportation’s lack of airline regulation under Secretary Buttigieg. Today, we come to you with a new Lever Action on regulation, this time related to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Under Chair Lina Khan, the FTC has been making encouraging statements and setting a regulatory agenda focused on how forcing workers to sign noncompete clauses is bad for our nation. As Khan has noted, “noncompetes depress wages and kill innovation.”

Join this action now to show the FTC that you support Chair Lina Khan’s belief that noncompetes are bad for our nation.

From our friends at Demand Progress:

Noncompetes restrict 30 million peoples’ right to start their own company or move to a new job. That gives corporations more power over workers, and less freedom for millions of Americans. It would be a clear win for workers if the FTC banned noncompetes, but corporations won’t just let it happen. Corporations will fight to protect these anti-worker noncompetes, so we have to use our collective people power to overcome their corporate power.

Sign the petition: The FTC must ban noncompetes to protect workers and innovation!

Banning noncompetes could increase worker pay by $300 billion per year and bolster innovation. We must stand up to the massive corporations and their lobbyists who will try to stop this.

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Rock the boat.

Sirota