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Re:The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye by Apocryphon on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:32PM (#14763883)
Sounds like a case for unions or some other professional association where workers can band together into common insurance pools.
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Re:The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye by westbywest on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:23PM (#14764338)
The ability to negotiate healthcare benefits as a group is indeed a popular justification for unions in fields not historically associated with union labor. Freelancers Union is an example, in addition to others mentioned up-thread. https://www.freelancersunion.org/benefits/
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Re:The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye by pavel_lishin on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:27PM (#14764385)
Circling back to the inescapability of politics.
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