Overview
What do part-time or underemployed workers without health benefits, pensions or job security who work split shifts at a number of different locations each week have in common? They all hold a university degree, often with at least one master’s degree and/or a doctorate, but find themselves in precarious, insecure work.
In our third installment exploring collective representation as a response to worker precarity in the labor market, this webinar will focus on white collar jobs, examining precarity in journalism, academia and computer programming (coding).
A university degree once meant stable, secure employment with a salaried income and a range of benefits–from health insurance to pension funds to college funds and life insurance. We will be joined by experts who will discuss how and why precarious work, often associated with service-sector jobs, is spreading to jobs that were once considered the domain of stable employment. We will then be joined by organizers who will relate their experience developing and executing successful campaigns to counter precarity in these three sectors.
More speakers to be announced.
