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State Rideshare Collective Bargaining Policies Hold Great Promise
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State Rideshare Collective Bargaining Policies Hold Great Promise

A state model will test whether a simpler path to a union and sectoral bargaining can build power for Uber and Lyft drivers and improve jobs in the industry.

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A promising new strategy to enable rideshare drivers at companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize and bargain collectively first became law in Massachusetts in November 2024. As worker organizing there continues, the strategy could spread to California as soon as this fall, with drivers also pushing Minnesota and Illinois to consider action.

These new and proposed state policies, based on creating an easier path to form a union and bargaining across an entire sector of the economy rather than with an individual employer, represent critical experiments for how to rapidly improve jobs in today’s economy.

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David Madland

Senior Fellow; Senior Adviser, American Worker Project

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