After almost 3 years, the Coalition of Practicing Interpreters and Translators is saying farewell.
While advocacy efforts to improve the conditions of interpreters and translators will always be needed, our 2 primary purposes for existing as a Coalition have been accomplished.
“What Worked to WIN?” Features Front-Line Interpreters Whose Campaign May Be a Blueprint for Colleagues. Space Limited. Secure Yours Today You are invited to this free webinar on Thursday, May 5, to find out. Join interpreters, translators, educators, and allies nationwide to celebrate a win that has ripple effects for all of us. “What Worked to …
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CoPTIC America’s Lorena Ortiz Schneider presented together with Shamus Sayed at the February General Meeting of the Northern California Translators Association. The topic of the presentation was California’s AB2257 and the new federal PRO Act. A recap of the meeting is available here on Translorial, NCTA’s online journal.
This 90-minute webinar will take place on January 26, 2022at 1:30 PM Eastern / 12:30 PM Central / 10:30 AM Pacific. Did you think the threat of taking away freelance status ended in California? It didn’t. Now we have to fix a Federal Bill that portends similar danger to linguists and the people we serve. …
Yes, we can! New video by the Coalition tells how we won an epic fight to protect the livelihoods of interpreters and translators in 2020. It also shows why a federal bill, the PRO Act, must be fixed to prevent irreparable harm to language professionals and people we serve. Watch the video to find out how YOU can help earn another victory.
A new study of the language profession finds that 75 percent of interpreters and translators are freelance or self-employed. The comprehensive study reveals that independent contractor status is the norm throughout California, in all categories in the profession, and even across nations. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans are depending on interpreters and translators to make sense of official announcements and apply evidence-based …
Has translator productivity increased? Are career translators willing to post-edit machine translation output? Do they feel translation memories are sufficiently maintained? Are interpreters increasingly working remotely? Do linguists struggle with the number of vendor portals they have to log into? Are they likely to still be working in the profession five years from now? These and similar …
75 Percent of Linguists Work Independently; Only 6 Percent Fit Definition of Employee Read More »