Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will quickly have the precise to unionize in California as unbiased contractors, because of a invoice signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
That is half of a bigger deal between lawmakers, unions, and ride-hailing corporations, ensuing within the passage of separate payments supporting decrease insurance coverage necessities for Uber and Lyft, together with union rights for his or her drivers. When the deal was first introduced in August, Newsom described it as an “historic settlement between employees and enterprise that solely California may ship.”
The Associated Press reports that greater than 800,000 drivers will achieve the precise to affix a union and collectively cut price for higher pay and advantages. Ramona Prieto, Uber’s head of public coverage for California, advised the AP in a press release that the 2 payments “symbolize a compromise that lowers prices for riders whereas creating stronger voices for drivers.”
Massachusetts voters passed a ballot measure giving ride-hailing drivers unionization rights final fall.