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By Syndicated Content By Tina Bellon (Reuters) – Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that could upend their business based on classifying workers as independent contractors. In New York, for example, gig economy companies are working with several unions including the Machinists and Transport Workers Union to strike a compromise that would allow drivers and food delivery workers to organize in a union and negotiate minimum pay and other benefits without being reclas...

Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that

Austin, Texas Uber and other gig economy companies are trying a new approach to ending their battles with unions, and getting ahead of possible federal regulation that could upend their business based on classifying workers as independent contractors. In New York, for example, gig economy companies are working with several unions including the Machinists and Transport Workers Union to strike a compromise that would allow drivers and food delivery workers to organize in a union and negotiate minimum pay and other benefits without being reclassified as employees. With the support of the unions,...

Andy Stern former SEIU President and Obama appointee to the Deficit Reduction Committee has penned an Op-Ed in the WSJ where he outlines the opinion that Free-Market Capitalism should be destroyed/abandoned. . . .The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model — so successful in the 20th century — is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century. In an era when countries need to become economic teams, Team USA’s results — a jobless decade, 30 years of flat median wages, a trade deficit, a shrinking middle class and phenomenal gains in w...

by Robin Ketelaars History Matthias Dilthey called for a day of basic income in 2006, which unfortunately received little support at the time.* The first week of the basic income was held in 2008 and was designed as a sub-project of the EU-funded “Basic Income on the way to Europe.” This was initiated by Günter Sölken, from an idea the Basic Income Network Germany (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen) had proposed. It happened with the support of Basic Income Network and Social Cohesion Austria, BIEN Switzerland, Attac branches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, along with the help of many indepe...