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The gig economy, as it's been known, was built around a controversial idea that an Uber driver, say, did not work for Uber, or a DoorDash delivery person did not work for DoorDash.

These apps instead were merely making a market

for workers, which a user could access to hire someone. Many labor leaders rejected this idea,

and it's led to fights in the legislature courts. And of course, Prop 22 when voters handed the tech

companies a huge win. The constitutionality of Prop 22 is now before the California State Supreme Court, and we're

stepping back to ask, how's the gig economy going for you?

That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Need a bit of history. After Uber and Lyft and DoorDash and Instacart really got rolling,

labor leaders got together to fight the idea that their employees, their workers, were all, quote, independent contractors, arguing that they were

simply misclassified employees, these companies. They began to file lawsuits, and in 2018, the

California Supreme Court agreed with them in the Dynamx decision. Then, legislators codified that

reality with Assembly Bill 5, which made gig workers into employees legally

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