‘We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people,’ Tong said. In Silicon Valley, a workers’ rights group established Gig Workers Rising, which helped with Wednesday’s strike. In California, trade union leaders are pushing for legislation to classify gig workers and other independent contractors as regular employees, after a state high court ruling last year. Nicole Moore is a Lyft driver and organiser with the Los Angeles-based group Rideshare Drivers United. They held Zoom conference calls where hundreds of Instacart workers and customers called in to coordinate.