Will Gawker Employees' Decision To Organize Make Unions Cool Again?

Freelancers Union founder on what Gawker's editorial employees' recent announcement means for the next generation of labor organization.

For a while now, I've been sensing a surge of support for the idea of unions, even as the national media, elected officials, and even many workers have conducted a decades-long death watch of the labor movement. While traditional unions have, indeed, been declining in membership, the media has largely missed the rise of alternative labor structures and a newfound interest in unions among millennials.

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