California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill allowing 800,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in the state to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits.
Gig companies have been pushing the claim that these are all independent contractors, not employees. As an independent contractor, you are a business and can’t collude with other businesses. So far they’ve had sufficient claim to hold in this gray area.
It is important to recognize there is something to these claims, but not really. Explicitly giving drivers the right to unionize gives them at least some rights of employees regardless of the gig companies claiming they’re not employees
Gig companies have been pushing the claim that these are all independent contractors, not employees. As an independent contractor, you are a business and can’t collude with other businesses. So far they’ve had sufficient claim to hold in this gray area.
It is important to recognize there is something to these claims, but not really. Explicitly giving drivers the right to unionize gives them at least some rights of employees regardless of the gig companies claiming they’re not employees