“It changes the game for ride-share workers across this country.”
Massachusetts certified the App Drivers Union to represent 70,000 Uber and Lyft drivers. Big headline, big rally, governor at the podium. The drivers stay independent contractors. So they got a union without the thing unions exist to win. No employee status, no guaranteed benefits, no wage floor. Uber and Lyft spent years and millions fighting to keep drivers as contractors, and they still are.