• Editorial

By Santa Clarita Valley Signal Editorial Board

A yes vote allows companies not to classify drivers as regular employees but provide them with some benefits that employees receive, such as minimum compensation, vehicle insurance, safety training and sexual harassment policies.

By San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board

Proposition 22 would categorize drivers for application-based rideshare and delivery services as independent contractors and require they be paid at least 120% of minimum wage for hours they spend driving.

By Palm Springs Desert Sun Editorial Board

Though we’re not fans of industry regulation by ballot box, California voters this November have the chance to push back against the mess of a law that was AB 5 and how it has wreaked havoc on industries across California. How? They can vote yes on Proposition 22.

By Chico Enterprise-Record Editorial Board

PROPOSITION 22: Yes. This is the gig economy relief measure. It’s designed to allow app-based businesses like Uber, Lyft and Doordash to continue treating their drivers like independent contractors rather than employees.

By La Opinión Editorial Board

One of the most controversial plebiscites that Californians will have to vote on November 3 is Proposition 22.

Uno de los plebiscitos más polémicos que los californianos deberán votar el 3 de noviembre es la Proposición 22. Representa la reacción de empresas de transporte de pasajeros como Uber, Lyft y DoorDash contra una ley de la Legislatura estatal que los conmina a contratar a los conductores como si fuesen empleados. Su postura constituye […]

By Redlands Community News Editorial Board

Proposition 22. Yes. Prop 22 would allow app-based businesses such as Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to classify their drivers as independent contractors.

By Alianza Metropolitan News Editorial Board

How to rescue hundreds of thousands of jobs in California during the pandemic: Yes to Proposition 22

By San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board

Proposition 22 is a battle between two determined and equally unappealing combatants. Proponents consist of the gig economy companies — Uber, Lyft, DoorDash among them — that are pouring $180 million into a campaign to dictate how they would be regulated on workplace issues. Opponents are the labor unions and the politicians they control, who refused to come up with a reasonable compromise in Sacramento.

By San Jose Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards

With the likes of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart, the gig economy has revolutionized transportation and how we shop.

By Santa Rosa Press Democrat Editorial Board

Proposition 22 is shaping up as a ballot-box version of the gunfight at the OK Corral. Instead of the Clantons and Earps, this feud pits organized labor against Uber, Lyft and other app-based service companies.

By Bakersfield Californian Editorial Board

Proposition 22 on the Nov. 3 ballot is intended to protect thousands of California’s on-demand drivers, their customers, much-needed jobs and the state’s economy. It is the latest battle in a war between independent contractors and labor union advocates over California’s “gig economy.”

By Southern Californian News Group Editorial Board

Since the California Supreme Court in 2018 handed down its Dynamex decision, the state has been marching toward an inevitable showdown with app-based transportation firms such as Uber, Lyft and DoorDash. Those companies have built business models around the type of independent-contractor labor the court decision has largely banned.

By San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board

One of state government’s worst traditions is once again on display: the partisan slanting of ballot language by attorneys general to either promote or undercut measures going before California voters.

By Los Angeles Daily News Editorial Board

The battle over Assembly Bill 5, which forbids many companies from using contractors as their workforce, is far from over even after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law. Three companies that face an existential threat from the measure — Uber, Lyft and DoorDash — have introduced an initiative that would exempt them from turning their drivers into regular employees.

By Los Angeles Times Editorial Board

California’s Silicon Valley created the “gig economy,” in which on-demand services are powered by on-demand workers, typically working part-time. Now, the California Legislature is considering proposals that could fundamentally change how the companies behind these services treat their workers — for better or for worse.