KATIE JOHNSTON AND SAMANTHA J. GROSS, The Boston Globe

Competing ballot measures would put the question of whether gig drivers are truly employees up for a vote in November 2024

The long-running battle over the employment status of Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts is ramping up again, with dueling ballot measures filed Wednesday — one by a local union and drivers that would give drivers the right to organize, and the other from a group of “drivers and allies” to enshrine gig-drivers’ status as independent contractors — that aim to put the matter up for a vote.