Let Lina Khan take on big corporations
Petition to Congress:
I urge you to allow the Federal Trade Commission to execute its mandate, including strong enforcement of antitrust laws to protect consumers and banning noncompetes to protect workers.
Jim Jordan, the rest of the GOP, and big corporate interests are throwing everything they can at Lina Khan to stop her efforts to empower workers. Corporations and Republicans don’t want Khan, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to block corporate mega-mergers and get rid of noncompetes. They don’t want the FTC to raise wages and enforce antitrust law.
Republicans are even spuriously accusing Khan of “foreign collusion.”1 We know MAGA Republicans will spread disinformation to serve their extreme agenda.
Sign the petition: Congress must enable the FTC to enforce antitrust law and protect workers to the fullest extent possible.
When Republicans want to stop the Biden administration they go on the all-out attack. When they don’t like a policy proposal, they spread lies and launch nasty disinformation campaigns. We can’t let the GOP and big corporations win this fight over workers and consumer protections.
Lina Khan is taking on the biggest corporations like Amazon, Facebook, and Google with her antitrust and pro-labor work.2 The FTC estimates that wages could collectively go up by $300 billion if noncompetes are successfully banned3 — $300 billion big corporations don’t want to pay.
We can’t let Congress and GOP extremism stand in her way.
Add your name: Congress must protect the FTC so it can do its work for consumers and workers.
Sources:
- Wall Street Journal, “The FTC Is Working With the EU to Hamstring U.S. Companies,” April 19, 2023.
- NPR, “Lina Khan is taking swings at Big Tech as FTC chair, and changing how it does business,” March 9, 2023.
- Huffington Post, “Congressional Democrats Urge FTC To Ban Noncompete Agreements 'Without Delay,'” April 19, 2023.