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This ad posted to Youtube was part of an unprecedented 200-million-dollar initiative in California by Lyft, Uber and other firms to convince voters that workers who use their apps to find work should be classified as independent contractors, overturning 2019 state legislation that defined them as employees.

发布到油管上的这则广告是来福车、优步等公司在加利福尼亚州发起的一项史无前例的2亿美元倡议活动的一部分，旨在说服选民，让他们认为使用其应用程序找工作的劳动者应被归类为独立承包商，从而推翻2019年该州将他们定义为雇员的立法。

It's a big win for the companies who are no longer required to cover all their drivers for health care and paid time off.

这对公司来说是个巨大的胜利，因为它们不再需要为所有司机提供医疗保险和带薪休假。

The companies see their victory as a vote of confidence in their model of a third way of defining work, app-based gigs, and may inspire similar pushes elsewhere.

这些公司将自己的胜利视为对其定义工作的第三种模式——基于应用程序的零工模式的信任投票，这或许会激励其他地方采取类似的举措。

It's gonna be something that we're going to see affecting more than just California now at this point because other states are looking at a challenge.

现在这将会影响到的不只是加州，因为其他州也正面临挑战。

And that's including Massachusetts, New York and even New Jersey.

包括马萨诸塞州，纽约州甚至新泽西州。

Gerace supported the initiative because he said as an independent contractor, the promise of flexibility works for him.

Gerace支持这项倡议，因为他表示，作为一名独立承包商，灵活性的承诺对他而言是可行的。

I'm not full time, I'm part time, so I go on and off when I choose. It's much more convenient for me that way.

我不是全职工作，我是兼职，所以我可以根据自己的选择随时上班或休息。那样对我来说方便多了。

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