The gig economy’s dark-money, astroturf “community groups”
Uber and Lyft spent their way into a rep for racial justice.
4 min readJun 19, 2021
When CA’s Proposition 22 passed in 2020, it killed the right of gig workers to unionize and it permanently enshrined the practice of worker misclassification: pretending employees are independent contractors, not entitled to health care, overtime, pensions or basic…