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05/08/2008: Floral Discount for Mother's Day
05/01/2008: CANCELED: Labor and New York's Economy: A panel at the Museum of the City of New York
04/23/2008: Demos releases agenda for "A Better Deal" conference
04/21/2008: April 2008 E-News
04/16/2008: WFP: Reform UBT
03/20/2008: March 2008 E-News
03/19/2008: Have a group of freelancers? Join our Alliance.
Copyright act’s effects on freelancers
Fri, 16 May 2008
You might have heard of the Orphan Works Act of 2008 (HR 5889), which some artists groups like the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) supports while others, such as the Advertising Photographers of America (APA) and Illustrators Partnership of America (IPA) have opposed. The U.S. Copyright Office indicates that the purpose of [...]
Photography competition from 3rd Ward
Fri, 09 May 2008
3rd Ward, a shared workspace for artists and one of our discount partners, is sponsoring a photography competition called EXPOSURE. See the info below, and go to the EXPOSURE website for more. The deadline is June 17. EXPOSURE is a nation-wide open call for photography and a search for photographers of all [...]
May is National Disability Insurance Awareness Month
Tue, 06 May 2008
Believe it or not, there’s actually an awareness month for disability insurance. This would strike us as faintly ridiculous if we didn’t know so much about it, and about how under-insured most people are for a disability. We’ll be putting bits of info here on the blog for the rest of the [...]
Freelancers Union widget for Macs
Tue, 06 May 2008
A quick note on something fun: one of our members, Joel Then, has made a widget for Macs! It’s a cool-looking feed of all our blog posts. We were tickled to learn about this. You can get the widget here: http://www.spectechstudios.com/flunion2.zip. Also, you should check out the website for Joe’s business, SpecTech Studios, which is a [...]
CANCELED: Discussion on the labor movement and NYC
Fri, 02 May 2008
UPDATE, 5/5/08: This event has been canceled by the Museum of the City of New York. At the Museum of the City of New York, Freelancers Union Executive Director Sara Horowitz will be participating in a panel discussion on May 8 at 6:30 p.m. Who Runs New York? The Labor Movement and the Economy in New [...]
May 1, International Workers’ Day
Thu, 01 May 2008
Happy May Day! In several countries around the world, May 1 is when Labor Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, is celebrated. International Workers’ Day commemorates both the call for an 8-hour workday, first made by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1884, and Chicago’s Haymarket Riots two years later. You [...]
The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhouse
Tue, 29 Apr 2008
Steven Greenhouse covers the labor beat for the New York Times, and he’s just authored a new book on the plight of American workers. In The Big Squeeze, Greenhouse trains his reporter’s eye on how workers are dealing with decreasing benefits and increasing job insecurity. Needless to say, some are going solo, and [...]
Conference for independent workers
Mon, 28 Apr 2008
Someone in Lausanne, Switzerland has had a great idea: a professional conference for freelancers. It’s a one-day event called “Going Solo.” In addition to the requisite opportunities for networking and socializing, the agenda is chock full of professional development seminars. (We heard about this via Gavin Baker.) If you’re planning to be in Switzerland on [...]
Demos’s “A Better Deal” conference
Wed, 23 Apr 2008
In just a couple of weeks, Demos is hosting a free conference in Washington, DC on solutions to the economic challenges facing today’s generation of young adults. On May 8-9, here’s what will be happening: Hundreds of young activists meeting to learn about their generationʼs economic crisis. The conference is not [...]
A documentary-in-progress about crafting
Fri, 18 Apr 2008
We’ve just learned of Handmade Nation, a film (currently in post-production) that documents “the rise of DIY art, craft, and design.” The filmmaker, Faythe Levine, has a blog about the production process, as well as about developments in the world of handmade goods–including a listing of upcoming craft fairs nationwide. If you’re interested in learning [...]
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An overview of Sole Proprietorships, S-Corps, C-Corps, and LLCsSeminar
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Where: 15 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
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