by dankeelan | Apr 2, 2020 | Gig Workers
A protester holds a sign at an Amazon building during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Staten Island borough of New York City, March 30, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) A pandemic hasn’t completely suspended the operation of economics in the...
by dankeelan | Apr 2, 2020 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers
Self-employed and gig workers may have to wait a little longer than other jobless Americans to get their unemployment benefits. The new coronavirus relief law significantly expanded the financial assistance it gives to out-of-work Americans, partly...
by dankeelan | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Gig Workers
Vanessa Bain, a well-known gig worker-activist, has teamed up with fellow gig worker-activist Sarah Clarke (pseudonym) to form the Gig Workers Collective. It’s early days for the organization, which is a pending 501(c)(3) organization, but its ambitions are big. “We...
by dankeelan | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Future of Work, Gig Workers
Gabriel is a professional transcriber, and for years he earned a middle-class living. In the early 2000s he’d make up to $40 an hour transcribing corporate earnings calls. He’d sit at his desk, “knock it out” for hours using custom keystrokes, and watch...
by dankeelan | Feb 10, 2020 | California, Featured, Gig Workers
The Sacramento Jazz cooperative plays on average a couple times a month at the Dante Club, but with Assembly Bill 5 in the law books, they aren’t sure how much longer they’ll be able to play there. “We need some kind of consideration, otherwise we are going to lose a...
by dankeelan | Feb 10, 2020 | California, Gig Workers, Legal
A federal judge on Monday denied Uber and Postmates a temporary reprieve from California’s controversial gig worker law, a setback for both companies as they scramble to deal with a measure that could upend their business models. Uber and Postmates asked for a...
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