A NLRB ruling on worker classification could make it easier for app-based gig workers to unionize.
A federal labor board ruling Tuesday on worker classification could make it easier for app-based gig workers to unionize.
In a ruling in a case about hair and makeup workers at the Atlanta Opera, the National Labor Relations Board applied a previous standard for determining employee status. The federal agency also announced in a news release that it had returned to that previous standard. “As app-based transport workers, we have long believed that despite platform companies intentionally misclassifying us as contractors, we have the right to organize our own unions,” said Nicole Moore, president of Los Angeles-based Rideshare Drivers United. “This ruling provides clarity, that indeed, the level of control these companies have over our work lives, setting our rates and managing us with algorithms and [artificial intelligence], that the federal government will back us.
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