Has anyone heard of this? My mother heard it on NPR and sent the website to me. seems like a fantastic idea/thing to be involved in for us independent contractors!
http://www.freelancersunion.org/
check out the tab About Us.





Has anyone heard of this? My mother heard it on NPR and sent the website to me. seems like a fantastic idea/thing to be involved in for us independent contractors!
http://www.freelancersunion.org/
check out the tab About Us.
Love it!
That is pretty cool. Thanks for posting.![]()
I think its definetly something to think about. sounds like they are on to something!
So it looks like insurance and retirement plans? I mean, for us.
We don't really use something like that to find work.
I once checked out unemployment for strippers. It was actually disability insurance and it's ridiculously expensive. Like we'd pay the same as a person building high-rise buildings 60 hours a week. I think it was like $500/month for $50,000/year of coverage. Strippers are considered extremely high-risk which is unfair because it's not (the "lifestyle" perhaps, but not the job itself), and we don't even work that much. Perhaps an advocacy group could explain this because nobody wanted to hear it from me. I wonder if something like this would help. Would strippers pay the same dues?
I believe we're more likely to get injured coming to and from work than at work itself....so I got better auto insurance. I figured worst case scenario where I injured my body so bad that I couldn't dance, I could still work at a computer. it jsut wasn't worth it, but I'd still like to have a reasonable option.
Last edited by Emily; 02-09-2007 at 12:07 PM.





Yes, it seems like something like this would help, i think they don't need to know exactly what we do, just that we are independent contractors. At the very least the discounts seem rockin (lol).
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the health coverage is actually available under the HealthyNY state subsidized program without having to pay for a freelancer's union membership !





and this is for people not in NY too...
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I'm looking it over, without spending that much time hitting details, and I'd have to say that it's more of a professional association or guild than a union. Unions are about collective bargaining across all of the scope of the employment relationship. This seems more like a means of establishing a negotiation pool for service purchases. It's still a good idea, but calling it a union confuses the issue when there are legal rights to the sort of organizations defined as unions under local statute.
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