Massachusetts voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure that would allow ride-share drivers to unionize, becoming the first U.S. state to allow drivers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft to do so.

The use of ride-share apps is popular around the country, with Uber and Lyft being the most popular. However, both platforms have faced intense criticism. Specifically, people feel that Uber and Lyft drivers are treated unfairly by their respective companies.

Drivers for companies such as Uber and Lyft won the right to unionize in Massachusetts, election results showed Wednesday, as voters pushed through a first-of-a-kind ballot referendum backed by national labor groups. The measure will permit transportation ...

A state ballot measure was the first of its kind in the United States, but labor advocates worry it could lock Uber and Lyft drivers out of full-time employment status.

Massachusetts voters have approved a ballot measure allowing ride-share drivers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft to unionize.

Rideshare drivers in Massachusetts working for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft gained the right to unionize Wednesday after residents voted in favor of a ballot question backed by a

Passage of the state ballot measure gives about 70,000 ride-share drivers the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining, which is not guaranteed to them under federal law.

Uber and Lyft seemed to invoke legislative amendments to the right of drivers to form a union, which Massachusetts voters approved with a narrow "yes" win on Question 3.