Category: Gig Economy
Gig workers urge no vote on Prop 22 in California to stop ‘corporate power grab’
From the Wire October 23, 2020
“No company should be able to buy its way out of treating workers fairly,” said one progressive think tank about the state’s ballot initiative that will have national implications. by Kenny Stancil, staff writer Friday, October…
Gig work is not a jobs safety net
Wade Rathke Meteor Columnist September 3, 2020
by Wade Rathke Thursday, September 3, 2020 Pearl River If service work had been the equivalent of a jobs’ “safety net” for workers in many cities and towns in the past, the only replacement available would…
Virus exposes gig economy for predatory business model it promoted
Wade Rathke Meteor Columnist March 19, 2020
By Wade Rathke New Orleans A lot of Silicon Valley are self-isolating in what should be shame as their app-based, platform capitalism, or whatever they wanted to call it, is exposed as little more than…
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