New union aims to overhaul self-employed workers' rights

Scheme to focus on freelancers’ issues such as late payments, with ambitions to eventually offer ‘bread funds’ for sick payA trade union is hoping to sign up more than 100,000 self-employed workers within the next five years as part of a radical new project to overhaul rights for surging numbers of freelancers, and tackle plunging union membership.With self-employed workers unlikely to take industrial action, the new platform is steering clear of the traditional role of a trade