A term originating and mainly used in the Pacific-Northwest region (northern costal
USA, southern coastal Canada). It refers to generally smaller
non-union groups paid by the job and the degree of the service produced that operates differently from a lot of the
mainstream corporate operations which mostly charge cutthroat prices for jobs of which the quality
may vary. The term originates from logging where these
non-unionized, piecework operating outfits were called gyppo loggers. Now it applies to anything although it often pertains to manual labor. While gyppo outfits pay well in the short term, the benefit of this fizzles in the lack of unionization along with not having benefits or a pension which means you
don'
t have a financially stable future when you cant work and means trouble if you get injured.