The Challenges and Barriers
Over 50 million Americans engage in Independent Work.
Get Involved
Independent Worker Advocacy Toolkit
When you decide to directly engage with legislators over issues that affect your innovative and valuable workstyle – you should have every resource and tool available to you to effectively convey your opinion.
With our Independent Worker Advocacy Toolkit, we provide you with downloadable material to effectively contact, and if desired, meet with your elected representative in Congress to ensure that your voice is heard.
STEP ONE
INFORM
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Understand advocacy
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How the labor policy is made and how the legislative process works.
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Insight into top challenges faced by Independent Workers.
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Factsheet on Independent Workforce of America.
STEP TWO
PREPARE
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What do we want?
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Why do we want it?
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Who can make this happen?
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Prepare your advocacy plan
STEP THREE
STRATEGIZE
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How to make policymakers hear our asks
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Effectively use the proper communication channels
STEP FOUR
EXECUTE
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Talking points
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Social media
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Email templates for correspondence
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Phone call scripts
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Meeting guides
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Contact tracker & follow up materials
Independent workers contribute $1.56 trillion to the U.S. economy.
IPSE Legislative Insights and Analysis
The U.S. 116th Congress has introduced several bills that address issues that directly affect the Independent Workforce of America. The leadership team at iPSE-U.S. provides expert insight and analysis on key bills so you know when, why and how to get involve
U.S. Senate
D-VA
Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act
U.S. House
D.C. Actions
We Work Through
Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas
Key to achieving our advocacy objectives is our relationship with D.C. lobbying firm MCRT.
Through their bipartisan team of qualified and skilled lobbyists, MCRT has developed a policy action plan for our association intended to strategically raise our national recognition, build valuable coalitions with legislators and key federal bureaucrats, and position the iPSE-U.S. leadership team to actively engage in policy development and commentary.
Coalition Actions
We Co-Founded
The Coalition for Workforce Innovation
The mission of CWI is to enhance the choice, flexibility, and economic opportunity for all workers.
Learn More about how we and our partners are Modernizing Federal Workforce Policy
White Papers
The State of Independence in America 2019: The Changing Nature of the American Workforce
MBO Partners, Inc. (2019).
No dedicated Federal focus
of Independent Workers
Unfair and unequal
tax treatment
Lack of access to
benefits structures
By every measure, Independent Workers should be able to carry serious political clout in the U.S.
3/4 Independent Workers choose to work this way.
Yet, Independent Workers lack a unified political voice that advocates on their behalf.
Advocacy
