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Freelancers Union is a non-profit organization in the United States that represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service.

Mission

Best known for its insurance offerings, Freelancers Union provides low-cost health, dental, disability, and life insurance to more than 11,000 independent workers in New York. Independent workers are the freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, temps, part-timers, contingent employees and the self-employed that make up one-third of the American workforce. Because they are employed in nontraditional arrangements, these independent workers do not have access to employer-based insurance. To address their needs, Working Today, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, launched Freelancers Union in 2001. Freelancers Union has created a portable benefits delivery system, linking benefits to individuals, rather than to employers, so independent workers can maintain benefits as they move from job to job and project to project. Services designed to help manage Employer insurance programs and provide employees
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Freelancers Union exists for two primary reasons: to provide a flexible safety net in the form of portable benefits, and to increase the visibility of independent workers. The social safety net that followed FDR’s New Deal consisted of employer-based benefits, most crucially health and disability insurance and savings for retirement. That system no longer meets the needs of the evolving workforce. Freelancers Union aims to provide a new, flexible safety net, by linking benefits to the individual rather than to the employer. The organization’s second core value, increasing visibility, consists of bringing issues that concern freelancers to the attention of media and policy makers.