Sara Horowitz has figured out a way to bring together tens of thousands of freelancers ? Web designers, video editors, writers, dancers and graphic artists ? into a thriving organization. Ms. Horowitz has founded the Freelancers Union, offering members lower-cost health coverage and other benefits that many freelancers often have a hard time getting. A former labor lawyer, Ms. Horowitz intends to form a forceful advocacy group for freelancers and independent contractors, the most mobile members of an increasingly mobile work force. In addition, she is trying to adapt unions to a world far different from yesteryear, when workers often remained with one employer for two or three decades.
See "Labor Union, Redefined, for Freelance Workers", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, January 28, 2007