Biden promised California’s gig worker law would go national. Why he can’t get it done

Biden has been one of the most overtly pro-union presidents in generations, walking the picket line with autoworkers last year. — TNS

SAN Francisco’s city attorney recently reached the kind of settlement many gig workers have been seeking for years: An app-based hospitality company called Qwick agreed to reclassify thousands of bartenders, servers and dishwashers as employees, giving them back wages and, for the first time, sick pay and other legal benefits.

But advocates’ dream that such settlements would spur new deals for gig workers across the country appears to be on hold. The San Francisco settlement, the first of its kind, applies only to Qwick’s workers in California, which has one of the most aggressive gig worker protections in the country.