Terri Gerstein (’95), Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, authored an article for The American Prospect praising a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling rejecting a November ballot initiative on gig driver employee classification for violating the state constitution’s “single subject” rule (“In Massachusetts, a Limit on Gig Companies’ Deceptions,” June 17). “It wasn’t, in the end, a case about whether gig workers should be employees or independent contractors, or about tort liability. It was about the power of well-funded companies to use their bazillions to get their way. In this sense, the broad-based campaign opposing the ballot initiative struck at the crux of the issue when they chose their name: Massachusetts Is Not For Sale. They came together: workers, unions, civil rights and immigrant rights’ organizations, environmentalists, seniors, and more, to make sure that massive out-of-state companies didn’t get to rewrite long-established protective workplace laws. Understood in this framework, Tuesday’s decision is part of an even larger trend: the public’s growing understanding that these seemingly invincible companies aren’t so invincible after all.”