Antitrust Challenge to Seattle Ride-Hail Union Law Continues (1)

Seattle couldn’t convince the full panel of the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its bid to throw out an antitrust challenge to a city ordinance that lets ride-hail drivers join unions.

The case will now proceed before Judge Robert Lasnik in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an Uber Technologies subsidiary argued that allowing drivers to bargain collectively over their pay would be tantamount to colluding on prices. They won a ruling from a three-judge panel in May that revived their antitrust challenge to the city ordinance. But the three-judge panel ...