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Bored permalancers working from home in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area should try ordering their lunch from Jimmy's Diner over on Union. The delivery guys they send you are cute!
The Viacom Walkout: It Is On
Thousands of Viacom's permalancers and contract employees have been encouraged to walk out and rally today at 3 p.m., in protest of the terms of their new contracts. N.B.: we rebut this announcement a little. The Times and the Post and others...
1,000 MTVN Permalancers To Earn Staff Positions
Over 1,000 lucky MTV Networks contractors are being converted to staff from their previous freelancer status, we've been told, in a move to appease angry contractors upset over December benefit cuts. "In the HR meeting they had yesterday with the...
Viacom Permalancers Revolt, Threaten To Bring In The Feds
Permalancer rebellion! We hear the indentured slaves over at MTV Networks are passing around a petition addressed to Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman. In it, they threaten to go to the IRS over the recent elimination of their benefits. The deadline for...
The Viacom Permalance Slave System
Here's what we hear from what we believe has truly become the Viacom sweatshop. (One Viacom permalancer estimates that almost 50% of the staff are contract workers at this point.) A 50-hour workweek will now be standard, at least at MTV Digital...
Memo: Judgment Day On Permanent Jobs For MTV Freelancers
The time has come for MTV Networks beleaguered slavey permalancers to learn their fate. Brand-new human resources lady Catherine Houser issued a memo an hour ago to the Viacom subsidiary's contractors, announcing they would learn if they were...
