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【正文】 Scores of workers from MTV Networks walked off the job yesterday afternoon, filling the sidewalk outside the headquarters of its corporate parent, Via, to protest recent changes in benefits. The walkout highlighted the concerns of a category of workers who are sometimes called permalancers: permanent freelancers who work like fulltime employees but do not receive the same benefits.Waving signs that read 39。39。Shame on Via,39。39。 the workers, most of them in their 20s, demanded that MTV Networks reverse a plan to reduce health and dental benefits for freelancers beginning Jan. 1. In a statement, MTV Networks noted that its benefits program for fulltime employees had also undergone changes, and it emphasized that the plan for freelancers was still highly petitive within the industry. Many freelancers receive no corporate benefits. But some of the protesters asserted that corporations were peting to see which could provide the most mediocre health care coverage. Matthew Yonda, who works at Nickelodeon, held a sign that labeled the network 39。39。Sickelodeon.39。39。 39。39。I39。ve worked here every day for three years I39。m not a freelancer,39。39。 Mr. Yonda said. 39。39。They just call us freelancers in order to bar us from getting the same benefits as employees.39。39?！ he changes to the benefits package were announced last Tuesday. Freelancers were told that they would bee eligible for benefits after 160 days of work, beginning in January. While that eased previous eligibility rules, which required freelancers to work for 52 weeks before being eligible, it would have required all freelancers not yet eligible for benefits to start the waiting period over again on Jan. 1. The 401(k) plan was also removed. On Thursday, acknowledging the plaints, MTV Networks reinstated the 401(k) plan and said freelancers who had worked consistently since March would be eligible. Fueled by a series of blog posts on the media Web site Gawker the first post was headlined 39。39。The Via Permalance Slave System39。39。 a loose cohort of freelancers created protest stickers and distributed walkout fliers la
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