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Working Together Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers Authors: Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross |
With the erosion of the archetype of a five day week, full time for most, agreed hours job, goes the loss of a wide range of benefits in favour of precarious work with limited rights and imposed flexibility. Not all self-employment is of this form, but what tends to be characteristic of newer self-employed workers and those on zero hour contracts is low pay, limited legal protection, high insecurity, limited social security access, limited pension entitlement and limited collective representation. Surveys show that casual agency staff and self- employed workers are earning 40% less than an average employee. Such workers also commonly live in precarious housing with a lack of security of tenure and limited access to personal loans and mortgages. With lack of access to maternity or paternity leave or pay for a growing number of precarious workers, family life and family planning becomes more difficult. International research by the ILO has shown that partnerships between mutual aid groups, co-operatives and trade unions are proven ways to organise self-employed workers and to secure both rights and access to a wide diversity of needed services.
Sa erozijom arhetipa petodnevne nedelje, sa punim radnim vremenom za većinu i dogovorenim satima, gubi se širok spektar beneficija u korist nesigurnog rada sa ograničenim pravima i nametnutom fleksibilnošću. Nisu sve vrste samozapošljavanja ovog oblika, ali ono što obično bude karakteristično za novije samozaposlene radnike i one koji imaju ugovore o nultom satu je niska plata, ograničena pravna zaštita, visoka nesigurnost, ograničen pristup socijalnom osiguranju, ograničeno pravo na penziju i ograničeno kolektivno reprezentacija. Istraživanja pokazuju da povremeno osoblje agencija i samozaposleni radnici zarađuju 40% manje od prosečnog zaposlenog. Takvi radnici takođe obično žive u nesigurnim stambenim zgradama sa nedostatkom sigurnosti zakupa i ograničenim pristupom ličnim kreditima i hipotekama. Sa nedostatkom pristupa porodiljskom ili roditeljskom odsustvu ili platama za sve veći broj nesigurnih radnika, porodični život i planiranje porodice postaju teži. Međunarodno istraživanje MOR-a pokazalo je da su partnerstva između grupa za uzajamnu pomoć, zadruga i sindikata dokazani načini za organizovanje samozaposlenih radnika i obezbeđivanje prava i pristupa širokom spektru potrebnih usluga.
Key words: authors/ Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, Language/ English, precarious workers, precariat, self-employment, trade unions, family, social cooperatives, platform cooperatives, union cooperatives
ključne reči: autori; Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, jezik / engleski, prekarni radnici, prkarijat, samozapošljavanje, sindikati, porodica, zadruge / socijalne zadruge, platformske zadruge, sindikalne zadruge
