{"id":435835,"date":"2026-08-18T02:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/435835\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:16:21","slug":"gig-driver-union-could-be-certified-in-less-than-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/435835\/","title":{"rendered":"Gig driver union could be certified in less than 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 California gig workers cleared a historic milestone last week.<\/p>\n<p>Uber and Lyft drivers celebrated the formation of what they said will be the biggest ride-hailing driver union in the world.<\/p>\n<p>California is the second state to allow ride-hailing drivers to unionize after Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The newly formed California Gig Workers Union represents around 350,000 rideshare drivers statewide, according to the union. Drivers cleared the first major hurdle, reaching the required 30% of active driver support to create the union.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a 30-day waiting period must pass before the union can be formally certified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 California gig workers cleared a historic milestone last week. Uber and Lyft drivers celebrated the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12862,387,7,173005,48,52,51,47,50,49,5999,136,1967],"class_list":["post-435835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-local-business","tag-business","tag-california","tag-juliet-lemar","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}