SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

About 80,000 drivers for rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft in California will be allowed to join a union as part of a legislative deal that also lowers an insurance requirement that drivers carry $1 million in coverage for crashes caused by uninsured or underinsured drivers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and the leaders of Uber, Lyft and SEIU California announced support for two bills Friday, after nearly a decade of fights over gig worker unionization.

Rideshare companies and unions have clashed over how the state's labor laws should apply to drivers. SEUI California says one in 24 workers in the state is a gig driver.

Assembly Bill 1340, known as the Transportation Network Company Drivers Labor Relat

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