Gig Groups, Companies Join Forces as They See Peril in Labor Push

Gig companies such as Lyft Inc., Postmates Inc., and TaskRabbit, along with some business groups see current proposals to make major changes to labor law as threats to their or their members’ business models, and they’re joining forces in Washington to fight back.

A Retail Industry Leaders Association initiative is bringing together companies and business and independent worker organizations to lay the groundwork to build a unified lobbying force with their new organization, Coalition for Workforce Innovation.

Labor policy has become an increasingly heated issue at the state and federal level. Unions and the business community are aggressively ...