As of today, NELP has laid off nearly two-thirds of staff union members in a single month, effectively gutting critical programmatic work. We call for accountability, in the hope that under new leadership, NELP will have a chance to thrive again: nelpstaffassociation.medium.com/nelp-staff-a...

NELP Staff Association Stands United and Calls for Accountability After Historic Layoffs

Nearly two-thirds of the staff union, with 130+ years of cumulative experience at NELP, were forced out in a single month

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After a hard-fought campaign against #Uber & #Doordash, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance & the Workers Justice Project won just cause protections against the unfair firings that plague the ridehail and delivery industries. www.nelp.org/in-historic-...

In Historic Win, NYC Extends Just Cause Protections to App-based Ridehail and Delivery Workers - National Employment Law Project

NELP applauds the New York City Council for extending just cause protections to app-based workers.

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Companies like Uber and Instacart shouldn’t be able to weaponize your data to set individualized algorithmic prices or wages. It’s bad for workers, it’s bad for consumers, and New York City should do something about it. Our latest for @NYFiscalPolicy: open.substack.com/pub/nycpolic...

Banning Surveillance Pay and Pricing in NYC

Innovations in bilking and what the next mayor of New York City can do to stop them. By Sally Dworak-Fisher, Pat Garofalo, Dan Ocampo, and Paul Sonn.

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National Employment Law Project@nelp.org · 8mo ago

Big tech shouldn’t be able to weaponize your personal data to jack up consumer prices and low-ball worker pay for people who don’t have other options.

Big tech shouldn’t be able to weaponize your personal data to jack up consumer prices and low-ball worker pay for people who don’t have other options.

Uber and DoorDash now arguing that a new city law violates the First Amendment because it forces them to speak a “government-mandated message” about the “controversial subject” of tipping. This is the kind of stuff that should be sanctionable www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...

Uber and DoorDash Try to Halt N.Y.C. Law That Encourages Tipping

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Workers deserve dignity and transparency. Yesterday at the Capitol, NELP's Laura Padin spoke fiercely about the reality of app-based work. The Empowering App-Based Workers Act finally brings sunlight, fairness, and limits on how much corporations take from each fare. Congress needs to pass it.

NELP’s @laurapadin.bsky.social speaking at a press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol🏛️about why passing the Empowering App-Based Workers Act is an important step in building a #GoodJobsEconomy 📢

$20 billion in stock buybacks funded mainly by slashing driver wages--who are already making below the minimum wage across the US. Shareholder capitalism at work www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Uber Boosts Buybacks by $20 Billion After Upbeat Forecast

Uber Technologies Inc.’s upbeat forecast and better-than-expected quarterly gross bookings failed to boost the rideshare and food-delivery company Wednesday, with shares handing back some of their imp...

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Surveillance pricing is here. Airlines like Delta are following the Uber playbook: using AI to set individualized prices, maximizing the value they can extract from each consumer based on personal data they collect.

American Economic Liberties Project@econliberties.bsky.social · last yr.

“Exploitation phase.” That’s what the company behind Delta’s new AI pricing tool calls the part where it figures out exactly how much it can squeeze out of every consumer. Surveillance pricing is here — and it’s being praised as the “The Holy Grail” for pricing schemes.

Proud to stand alongside my friends at Los Deliveristas Unidos yesterday to celebrate another major victory for New York City’s delivery workers.

1/ Another study about algorithmic wage-setting!! This one from Oxford and @workerinfox.bsky.social, analyzing 1.5 million Uber trips in the UK, shows how dynamic pricing has made the experience of driving for Uber much worse. arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing

Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

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New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing

Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

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New - Oxford University research in partnership with @Workerinfox exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...

New Research Exposes Deepening Exploitation of Uber Drivers by Algorithmic Pay

New Research Exposes Deepening Exploitation of Uber Drivers by Algorithmic Pay

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1/ Over the last five years, Uber has gone from burning cash to becoming an extremely profitable company, with a $12 billion swing in free cash flow. How? By using algorithmic “upfront pricing” to hike customer prices and cut driver wages. len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-bec...

How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine

Uber has achieved one of the most impressive turnarounds in recent corporate history — a $12 billion swing in free cash flow over the past…

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For the record, before the 1830s or so--that is, during the US founding era--all of New York City's food markets were publicly owned. eh.net/book_reviews...

I’ve had the pleasure of working a bit with this guy over the last few years and he is the real deal—brilliant, principled, and an incredible lawyer & advocate for working people. He’s exactly the kind of person every state should be electing Attorney General. Donate!

David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General@seligmanforag.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm David Seligman. I’m running for CO Attorney General. This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of migrants to Libya, in a sharp escalation of its deportation program.

Forced arbitration is one of those things that, once you understand how it works, you can't stop thinking about it. Companies can make their workers sign away all their rights to go to court--for wage theft, discrimination, or essentially whatever--in fine print, click-through "contracts".

Due process in America means they give you a sheet of paper telling you you’re off to the foreign slave prison *24 hours before* they actually send you to the foreign slave prison.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last yr.

3) 24 hours is more than adequate notice to satisfy due process requirements for AEA deportations 4) Trump’s public statements shouldn’t be treated as official justifications for the administration’s AEA policies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Workers deserve fair treatment, guaranteed paid sick leave, a living wage, and more – as Mayor, here’s what I’ll deliver for all New Yorkers:

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family

On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.

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Thank you for endorsing me for Mayor of NYC Chi Ossé! Let’s make shit work.

Madness

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last yr.

The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement. abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

NEW from @MiamiHerald: as the Trump admin continues to cite tattoos as evidence of gang membership, experts on the Tren de Aragua gang again confirm that it does NOT use tattoos as a means of identification. The idea seems to have been invented by Americans.

Just blatant lying and ridiculous nonsense from all of the people in this room. Send them all the Hague

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social · last yr.

Stephen Miller says that returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US would amount to "kidnapping" a citizen of El Salvador

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

BREAKING: En banc DC Cir. court of appeals reinstates members of the NLRB and MSPB that Donald Trump attempted to remove

And just like that, the DC Circuit says the 90-year-old structure of the NLRB is unconstitutional, because it limits the President’s power to fire executive officials, abridging the President’s Article II power as conceived by the unitary executive theory.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: The federal court of appeals in DC has cleared the way for Trump to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, consolidating Trump's grip on once "independent" parts of the executive branch. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...