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Biden campaigned on making gig workers employees. Now he has to convince Democrats.


Biden campaigned on making gig workers employees. Now he has to convince Democrats.
Faiz Siddiqui, Eli Rosenberg
A DoorDash bag hangs on a bicycle as a food delivery courier picks up an order from a restaurant in Los Angeles on July 6. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News)
The future of gig workers including Uber drivers, DoorDash couriers, and other app workers is likely to emerge as the most explosive labor issue for the incoming Biden administration, threatening to aggravate the tensions between the centrist and more corporate-friendly wing of the Democratic Party and the fired-up progressives on the left.
Although Biden’s campaign platform called for gig workers to be classified as employees, narrow Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate and those intraparty philosophical rifts could block Democrats from reaching agreement on gig worker rights. Biden s policy on the economy ....

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