We are excited to announce the launch of The Gig Organizer, a newsletter written by and for gig workers in the service industry, and its Forum, the Gig Worker U.S. Forum. The following is our statement of purpose and plans for the future:
Affiliates of the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC) are responsible for constructing independent, class-conscious, and class-combative trade-union machinery as the basis for rank-and-file democracy, economic action, and political power. Trade unions and shop committees seek to unite the majority of workers in a workplace, enterprise, or area, at the point of production, and within a single trade or industry, around the struggles for better working and living conditions. The NLOC differentiates itself from the establishment unions by organizing workers in the long-term struggle for political power amidst short-term struggles for immediate and minimum demands. Through The Gig Organizer and our Forum, Gig Worker Committees seek to do just that for app-based ride-share and delivery drivers, as well as for app-based and other informal or “self-employed” domestic workers. This could include workers for TaskRabbit, neighborhood baby-sitters, self-employed house maids, or even migrant workers “illegally” contracted for landscaping or construction on some Yankee’s property.
Read More at their website: https://gigworkerus.org/
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