[lbo-talk] PEN-Lers/LBOsters blogworth as per Technorati

[Marvin Gandall]

Actually, not my words, but those of the AP dispatch. The organizers are no 
doubt sincere, but your experience was/is typical of freelancers - 
especially artists and writers. No bargaining power, though maybe they can 
combine for affinity credit cards and other group benefit plans the way 
alumni and other associations do.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] PEN-Lers/LBOsters blogworth as per Technorati


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> On Aug 6, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
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>> evokes memories of the
>> early labor organization of freelance writers in the early 1980s.
>
> Wow. What a stunning success that was! I got involved in the NWU in
> the late 1980s, and sat in on negotiations with the Village Voice.
> And sitting was all I could do - the VV didn't recognize us, and so I
> wasn't allowed to speak. I did talk informally from time to time with
> the excellent Julie Kushner, lead negotiator with the Voice for the
> UAW, which represented fulltime staff, but that was it. We then took
> a survey of Voice freelancers and found that they were happy to be
> writing for the Voice and didn't particularly want the NWU to rescue
> them. And from then on, the NWU accomplished, um, like nothing.
>
> Doug
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