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VERY interesting approach: venture capitalists looking to make a buck selling services to represent groups of workers dealing with their employers ....
The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists
A startup called Unit of Work is helping workers form independent unions, with backing from an unlikely source. The mission is to reverse the long-term decline of organized labor in the U.S.
finance.yahoo.com
... Unit's business model works like this: The startup's organizers provide free consulting to groups of workers organizing unions within their own workplaces — helping them build support to win elections, advising them on strategy in contract-bargaining sessions, guiding them through paperwork filings and around legal obstacles. Once a contract is in place, members of the new union can decide to pay Unit a monthly fee — similar to traditional union dues — to keep providing support ...