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Temps Demand a New Deal
The Nation reports that "the explosion of temping and the shifting of employment relationships away from traditional jobs poses what may be organized labor's greatest challenge and opportunity since World War II: organizing the swelling ranks of temps, day laborers, contract and leased workers whose perpetual job insecurity forms the porous foundation of today's supposedly stellar economy."
Tags: unions; collective bargaining; temporary employment; independent contractors; second-class workers; National Alliance for Fair Employment