In Seattle, drivers for ride-hailing service Uber have won the right to unionize, a move that could potentially impose local rules on Uber’s relationships with its drivers in other cities.
Tom Knight, a professor with the UBC Sauder School of Business, commented that in B.C., there is a category of workers called dependent contractors. Whether such employees can unionize is decided on a case by case basis, by the provincial labour relations board, he told CBC News.
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