Sledgehammer Shannon

Not buying into the Uber Goober:

Liss-Riordan has heard all this before. When she litigated similar cases on behalf of cleaning workers, the cleaning companies claimed they were simply connecting broom-pushing "independent franchises" with customers. When she won several landmark cases brought by exotic dancers who had been misclassified as contractors, the strip clubs argued that they were "bars where you happen to have naked women dancing," Liss-Riordan recounts with a wry smile. "The court said, 'No. People come to your bar because of that entertainment. Adult entertainment. That's your business.'"

Uber's argument is pretty similar to that of the strip clubs. "Uber is obviously a car service," she says, and to insist otherwise is "to deny the obvious."