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Social networking is the tool par excellence for labor organizing.
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Sara Horowitz:
Sara Horowitz founded Working Today - Freelancers Union in 1995 to represent the needs and concerns of the growing independent workforce. In recognition of her efforts to create a self-sustaining organization of flexible workers, Horowitz was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999. Before founding Freelancers Union, Horowitz worked as a labor attorney, a union organizer, and a public defender in New York City. A lifelong resident of Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, SUNY Buffalo Law School, and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Horowitz is a trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and is on the board of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: How has social networking transformed unionizing?
Sara Horowitz: It’s the tool. It’s another tool. You know, the strike as a tool, sit down are tool, petitions are tools. These are tools. Sometimes people confuse tools with strategies. And what, I think, a lot of the social networking sites are showing us is that there are ways that you can communicate with people, bring people together, mobilize them in ways that we haven’t been able to before. I think that’s where the Freelancers Union has been really successful is because we’ve been able to leverage that. And… You know, we now have over a 100,000 members. We never would’ve been able to do that without the Internet.
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