1. No spam. Reposts of the same content and any form of business advertisement will be deleted immediately. Members will be banned if they advertise or repeatedly spam.  
2. No links unless they are to a .org or .wordpress.com website, or have been sent out by a moderator. Posts with unauthorized links will be immediately deleted and users may be banned depending on the content of the link or on the amount of infractions. Three strikes and your out. 
3. Post in relevant sub-forums only. Messages posted in the wrong topic area will be removed and placed in the correct sub-forum by moderators.
4. No bigotry or harassment. Slurs, sexually-explicit language, and NSFW material will not be tolerated. This includes common slurs against women like b***h, c**t, and w***e. Those who break this rule shall be immediately banned.
5. No personal information. Only Signal usernames and organizational emails may be publicized, no personal emails or phone numbers. Users are required to use a pseudonym for their first name, and a descriptor of their division of labor or employment position as their last (e.g., J. Dasher, R. Driver, C. Cleaner, etc). Publicizing anyone's personal information will result in a ban.
6. List general employment information in your biography. For app-based workers, list the company you work for. For non-app domestic workers, clarify whether you are W-2, 1099, or unclassified. 
7. No sensitive organizational information. Planning shall be conducted internally via private group-chats and meetings of specific organizations. Forums shall be reserved for general advice and public campaigns/events. Will result an immediate ban if broken.

Gig Worker U.S. and its Forum are administered by the Editorial Board of The Gig Organizer. We are a newsletter written by and for gig workers in the service industry that can be physically distributed to gig workers and therefore used as a tool of collective organization. Distributing the newsletter, along with other gig worker propaganda, is the primary day-to-day function of local Gig Worker Committees, geographic organizations of gig service workers operating on- and off-the-job. By organizing geographically, we cast the widest net possible across all crafts and sectors of the service-based gig economy in order to concentrate the forces necessary for an All-U.S. Trade Union of Gig Workers. Due to our unique conditions of labor, gig service workers have the opportunity to collectively employ ourselves to corporations or individuals for wages and standards we set for ourselves. But this is only possible with a trade union that collectively organizes our labor in opposition to exploitation and oppression. For service gig workers, this would mean exercising collective authority over the usage of our labor and means of production, including those personally-owned by us and privately-owned by an employer, rather than being individually reliant on a capitalist or group of capitalists for our employment. 

Service gig workers are subject to some of the worst levels of exploitation and political persecution in the U.S. and internationally. The "simpleness" of our labor allows capitalists to pay us the lowest possible wages needed to keep us working, which forces us to endure grueling hours and unsafe working conditions knowing we could starve or end up houseless without another gig. At the same time, massive corporations are making billions in revenue and profit from our labor, precisely due to how little they pay us. Gig employers are so obsessed with paying us as little as possible that they will strip us of basic employee rights to unionize, to strike, to employer-paid taxes, to full-time benefits, to a minimum wage, etc., so that we have no other option but to starve, lose shelter, and/or beg. Now with app-based gig work, employers can deflate the wages of entire industries and sub-industries by substituting regular W-2 work with cheaper, misclassified gig labor. The super-exploitation of gig workers blatantly exposes the capitalist nature of the U.S. Government and the usage of the legal system as a tool of the ruling class. Corporations are given absolute political and economic authority over their employees, the ruling class is given authority over the working class as a whole, and the little rights we've won can be easily stripped away. But workers have the ultimate power in society, the power of numbers and the power of labor. It is because a minority of "chosen" businessman have a monopoly over the means to employ us, that they can exploit our power to their own benefit, and to our detriment. We must break this monopoly of exploitation and impose our own: a monopoly of working class political and economic power. The capitalists are dependent upon us out-numbering and out-laboring them. This is an obvious weakness, for if we organize our numbers and our labor, we can easily seize control over our employment, and no longer be dependent upon the capitalists ourselves.  

Gig workers, unite!

NLOC’s Five Objectives and Six Principles can be found in detail here, but in short to get involved with NLOC you must believe in the importance of the struggle of workers around the world against the owners and their imperialist system, take a stand against the actions and ideas of opportunists in the labor movement, believe in the mission of creating an independent, class-conscious, democratic and combative labor movement, and be willing to get to work actually making that mission a reality.

The current constituent organizations of NLOC are:

1. New Day at UPS
2. New Day at Amazon
3. New Day at USPS
4. Organization of Class-Conscious Service Workers
5. Strike the Stage (Entertainment and Stage Employees)
6. Gig Worker U.S.

Shop organizations like these are the backbone of NLOC, in addition to its layer of contacts and supportive activists engaged in work and correspondence in other enterprises and industrial sectors around the country that don’t have an active shop paper/organization founded yet.

Workers’ circles currently affiliated to NLOC can be found in:

1. Charlotte, North Carolina
   • Email: workingpeopleclt@proton.me
2. Chicago, Illinois
   • Email: chicagoworkerscircle@proton.me
3. Columbus, Ohio
   • Email: cbusnlc@proton.me
4. Johnson City, Tennessee
   • Email: jcnlc@proton.me
5. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
   • Email: okcnewlaborcommittee@proton.me
6. Providence, Rhode Island
   • Email: rinewlabor@protonmail.com

To learn more about NLOC or reach out about getting involved, please email newlaboroc@proton.me.