You mentioned California, and the issue there is with truckdrivers.  Uber and Lyft drivers won the ballot issue in 2020, about remaining independent contractors.  I know.  A family member worked on the campaign.  What is going on now is truckdriver opposition to employee classification, because they aren't gig workers. 

"AB5 became the law covering an estimated 70,000 owner-operators in the Golden State after Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California refused a California Trucking Association (CTA) challenge to enforcement of AB5 against the trucking industry."

https://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/confusion_adjustments_follow_new_california_ab5_ruling_on_owne...