Gig Union
Ted Egan and BAVC Media discuss the future of freelance work in the Bay Area
 What do the fields of construction, advertising, and ride-sharing have in common? In the San Francisco Bay Area, all these industries employ freelancers whose numbers keep growing. How can our local employers support freelance workers in ways that sustain their employment and help strengthen the Bay Area’s workforce in a rapidly changing working economy? At BAVC Media, we believe that storytelling is an important tool for learning and social change so we gathered together lead employers from construction, advertising, and ride-sharing for a shared conversation with Ted Egan, the Chief Economist for the City of San Francisco. We swapped [...]
Workshift 2020 at the Exploratorium
By the year 2020, 40% of our workforce will be freelancers and contractors. The City of San Francisco is ground zero for this shift in the way we all work, and we want to begin the conversation now about what this shift means: for employers, for workers, for industry, and for policy development. For three years now, with the support of the Department of Labor, BAVC Media and the City of San Francisco have been serving freelancers through the Gig Union program. Join BAVC Media, along with government and industry experts, for a game-changing conversation about the biggest shift in [...]
Gig Union Town Hall 9.19.14 Highlights
Highlights of the Gig Union Town Hall, held 9.19.14 at Avocados and Coconuts. Â Visit https://bavc.org/gutownhall for event details. Full panel video will be released 10.2.14.
