Thousands of miles from the union halls of

Pennsylvania and Michigan, organized labor

is flexing its muscles in a pitched battle with

Big Tech.

And the Democratic Party’s 2020 class isn’t being

shy about picking sides.

In a rare injection of presidential politics into

a state policy debate, virtually every major

Democratic White House hopeful except Joe

Biden has waded into a California clash between

labor unions and tech giants such as Uber

and Lyft over the very definition of work in a

changing economy. In the run-up to Labor Day,

Democrats lined up behind a labor-backed bill

that would make it harder for tech companies

to classify workers as independent contractors,

who aren’t entitled to minimum wage or

workers’compensation.

BIG TECH OR BIG

LABOR? 2020

DEMOCRATS LINE

UP WITH UNIONS

Image: David Lienemann