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Organize? - Solidarnosc

Posted: Aug 06, 2011

I have been trying lately to come up with a strategy for organizing online workers, not just MTs, but all work-at-home workers who: (1) Get called "contractors" when they're clearly employees; (2) Get paid by the unit but are required to perform tasks on the job which do not figure in their unit pay; (3) Are required to supply their own computer, internet, phone, and electricity; (4) Are competing for a race to the bottom on pay with workers from impoverished countries; (5) Are given production and quality standards, which are arbitrarily established, arbitrarily interpreted, arbitrarily enforced, and can change at a moment's notice. I am new to this board, so I am sure this must have come up before, but have there been any really good ideas on how to organize when you do not personally know the person you work with?

Jeannine - Jean9

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I don't have any immediate ideas, but count me in!

You should come up with a watchdog organizations - to police abuses by MTSOs.

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Avoid the idea of union since that will only push more dictation overseas. You can still file suits against organizations that tend to be dastardly. Not sure about the legal matters involved, but I read often about watchdog groups that file suits against big companies for abuses. The idea will require more investigation.

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