Dear @faizsays and @nitashatiku,

This article is filled with a shocking amount of one-sided propaganda, and appears to be based on your fundamental confusion about what laws like #AB5 actually do.

You wrote: “Legislators approved Assembly Bill 5 ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/17/uber-lyft-prop22-misinformation/

... ( #AB5) in September 2019 to grant benefits to certain classes of gig workers, including Uber and Lyft drivers, by making them employees.”

None of that is accurate.

What #AB5 did was make most forms of independent contractor work illegal. It did not require companies ...

... to hire entire new swaths of employees, and it certainly did not require those companies to offer any kinds of benefits. Laws like #AB5 are instead a “my way or the highway” approach to how people can legally work. These laws say that either a company must hire everyone ...

... as an employee, or they must stop paying those people to work altogether.

The practical outcome of #AB5 has been the latter, as evidenced not only by the countless #AB5Stories from people having their income and careers destroyed, but also by the ...

... California Legislative Analyst’s Office’s own analysis stating that far fewer than the 1 million people affected were likely to actually become employees.

Those are the facts. #AB5 has been a work killer, not a job creator.

That you fail to understand this basic fact ...

... explains why you might even conceive of writing a story about how the only reasons #Prop22 passed were sneaky corporate tactics and confused voters.

Those of us who work as independent contractors are not confused. We understand that laws like #AB5 pose an existential ...

... threat to our income and careers. Anything that beats back these laws is a victory, which is why so many independent contractors nationwide fought hard for the #YesOnProp22 campaign.

Perhaps if you start talking to those of us who are actually ... https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/california-voters-saved-uber-lyft-gig-economy-backing-prop-22-ncna1246680?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2skRs6JlAyX0KhXj9wXXaJauJH9JFC_lVGILIH4n3lY_OC4qRngur3GYY

... threatened by anti-independent contractor laws like #AB5, instead of relying on pro-union sources, you would understand the broad public outrage about #AB5.

Until then, @washingtonpost is publishing propaganda, not journalism, on this topic.

#FightForFreelancers