Biden and Democrats plan to kill jobs associated with gig economy

Washington Examiner:

Who doesn’t love the gig economy? The answer, unfortunately, is Joe Biden and the Democrats. They support policies that nearly caused Uber and Lyft to close down operations in California this month, and still might cause them to do so.

For most people, the ease and flexibility of ride-sharing, food delivery, and other such conveniences allow hundreds of millions of people to obtain useful services, and tens of millions to take on lucrative side hustles — driving, tutoring, delivering, loaning cars, etc. — for extra cash. It has been especially beneficial during the coronavirus pandemic in helping obviate unnecessary trips by people who might have otherwise spread disease.

What is less obvious about the gig economy is that it is a coping mechanism. By avoiding the formal, traditional employment arrangement, gig work has helped keep the economy dynamic in spite of forces that tend to retard, namely, high payroll taxes, employment regulations, and unionization.

Unfortunately, labor unions are acutely aware of this, and they hate it. They want to put the toothpaste back into the tube and regain their old glory days, before unions became largely irrelevant to most workers and most industries.

Because the gig economy is helping companies avoid the shackles of the backward 1930s labor policy ensconced in the National Labor Relations Act, the unions’ Democratic allies are irrevocably committed to destroying it. In California, they are succeeding. The Biden-endorsed Assembly Bill 5 forces gig workers back into traditional employment relationships with the platforms on which they work. This defeats the entire purpose of most of their services.
...

They are already running into trouble with this law in California, but that will slow them down little.