Look here to find state-specific information or contact activists and organizations in your region. Workers' Stories Read how workers around the country are taking a stand and making a difference. WA Until February 2000, Deanna Christian worked for Microsoft as an editor. Organizing contingent workers is notoriously difficult.
Labor laws restrict the right of contingent workers to form unions and bargain collectively.
High turnover and dispersed workplaces make organizing harder. But contingent workers can organize, and their organization can make a difference. Because of the diversity of types of contingent work, the National Alliance for Workplace Fairness supports a multi-pronged strategy. Unions need to address contingent work at the bargaining table. Evidence suggests that contingent work is equally common in unionized workplaces, probably because employers seek to use lower-paid contingent workers as a weapon to weaken unions.