This Essay explores new and proposed collective bargaining legislation for non-employee workers, including drivers and other gig economy workers. Labor law protects the rights of employees to unionize, but non-employee workers, such as independent contractors, are on shakier footing when they...

Context and history -- A global perspective -- Overview of workers' essential need and forms of legal protection -- Substantive rights to minimum pay and safety standards -- Procedural rights : freedom of association and job security standards -- Exclusion from jurisdiction as a regulatory...