Why fast-food workers, ride-hail drivers, and nail technicians are fighting for this new form of labor organizing

Sectoral bargaining—where workers in an entire industry negotiate as a whole—is common in Europe. Now, organizers are trying to make it work in the U.S.

Lenny Peña, from Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been driving for Uber since 2017. At the beginning, he says he was able to make nearly $3,000 every week, by working seven or eight hours a day. But the payment structure for drivers has changed. “Now, to make the same amount of money, it’s extremely difficult,” he says, speaking through a translator. He has to drive 12 hours for Uber, and sometimes another four hours with Lyft, seven days a week. A ride that used to get him $60, he says, now pays him only about $25.

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