The Federal Trade Commission is siding with Uber Technologies Inc. in a fight to block a Seattle law that would allow ride-hailing drivers to collectively bargain.

In an amicus brief, the FTC and the U.S. Justice Department told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that a federal trial judge’s ruling that upheld the law threatened to “open the antitrust exemption door for nearly any type of regulation.”

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