Organizing on-demand: Representation,voice, and collective bargaining in the gig economy

 New unions and worker organizing

In many industrialized and post-industrial countries, union engagement with non-standard workers has focused on applying existing collective bargaining frameworks to new workers. Simultaneously, alternative organizing efforts are underway, including the formation of new independent unions emerging from non-standard workers. These examples are frequently rooted in community and worker empowerment, and are distinguished by their lack of collective agreements (Fine, 2015; Morris, 2005). There is also significant overlap between the emergence of ‘independent’ unions and revitalization efforts of established unions in the face of efforts to build a broad and inclusive labour movement

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