The Urban Worker Project

Our friends at Canadian Media Guild - La Guilde canadienne des médias are hosting a webinar on freelance rate setting and negotiation with the folks from Talent Collective. This session will happen on November 22 and is ideal for new freelancers or experienced contractors interested in boosting their pricing and negotiation skills. Attendees will gain access to a Freelance Resource Guide outlining links, books, communities and more to help prepare you explore your worth. ... The live version of this webinar is free. Register here: https://cmgfreelance.clickmeeting.com/state-your-w/register and enter UWP when you are asked for an affiliation code.

Anyone else having some trouble adjusting to an hour lost?! (Luckily, it only take 3-5 minutes to fill out our survey/share it with your friends! Link here: http://bit.ly/2OrE037)

Hey Urban Workers! Do we have any academics on this page? Last week, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives published "Contract U: Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities"; this study found that contract work (particularly part-time contract faculty) are accounting for more than half of all university appointments!... To read the full report, you can download it here: https://www.policyalternatives.ca//2018/11/Contract%20U.pdf

Hey Urban Workers! What have you been reading this week? We caught up on this piece written by Sara Mojtehedzadeh From the article: "The newly announced updates to the Canada Labour Code would impact workers in federally-regulated sectors like airlines, telecommunications, trucking, and banks, which employ around 900,000 people across the country.... The vast majority of employees in Ontario rely on provincial employment laws for their rights on the job, but the federal measures are of particular significance for workers at Pearson International Airport who have long demanded protection against contract flipping and called for a federally mandated minimum wage." https://www.thestar.com//ottawa-rolls-out-new-worker-prote

Après de nombreuses invitations au Québec pour parler du futur du travail, SMart engage la réflexion sur un modèle SMart au Québec, produit sur base des besoins... locaux. Vendredi passé, nous nous sommes réunis avec des travailleurs autonomes et des partenaires dans l'espace de co-working Temps libre Mile End à Montréal pour parler des défis, des opportunités et des enjeux d'un nouveau modèle de travail, autonome mais protégé. Nous souhaitons remercier tous les participants pour leurs retours intéressants. L'aventure ne vient que de commencer! Merci à Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada / Coopératives et mutuelles Canada, Desjardins, Cercle d'Affaires Belgique-Québec, The Urban Worker Project, Transform/er Montréal et beaucoup d'autres!