More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Additional context here: there was a statewide ballot measure in 2020 that would have classified gig workers as employees rather than contractors, thereby guaranteeing minimum wage, insurance, unionization, etc.
Uber spent record-breaking amounts of money fighting it and it went down in flames thanks to the Socal treatlerites.
Obviously, the state legislature could have passed a bill that would have made them employees, thereby granting them far more benefits, but this way they can just do this, knowing full well nothing will come of it.
Additional context here: there was a statewide ballot measure in 2020 that would have classified gig workers as employees rather than contractors, thereby guaranteeing minimum wage, insurance, unionization, etc.
Uber spent record-breaking amounts of money fighting it and it went down in flames thanks to the Socal treatlerites.
Obviously, the state legislature could have passed a bill that would have made them employees, thereby granting them far more benefits, but this way they can just do this, knowing full well nothing will come of it.