Dan Ocampo
@danocampo.bsky.social
Labor & employment law, gig workers, economics & finance. Long-suffering Spurs fan. Here to learn something new
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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-...
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.
www.nelp.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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-...
www.nelp.org/in-historic-...
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...
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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...
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
Uber and DoorDash Try to Halt N.Y.C. Law That Encourages Tipping
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
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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.
Congress needs to pass it.
December 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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.
Congress needs to pass it.
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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 📢
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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...
www.bloomberg.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
$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...
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.
“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.
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.
August 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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.
Proud to stand alongside my friends at Los Deliveristas Unidos yesterday to celebrate another major victory for New York City’s delivery workers.
July 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
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, ...
arxiv.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278
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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/
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, ...
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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/
Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/
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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...
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
www.workerinfoexchange.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
New - Oxford University research in partnership with @Workerinfox exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay
www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
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...
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…
len-sherman.medium.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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...
len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-bec...
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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.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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...
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!
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.
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.
May 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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!
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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...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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...
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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.
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.
May 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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.
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.
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".
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".
May 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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".
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.
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.
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4) Trump’s public statements shouldn’t be treated as official justifications for the administration’s AEA policies.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.
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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:
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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:
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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
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.
popular.info
April 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
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
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Thank you for endorsing me for Mayor of NYC Chi Ossé! Let’s make shit work.
April 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thank you for endorsing me for Mayor of NYC Chi Ossé! Let’s make shit work.
Madness
The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement.
abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...
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Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'
A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
abcnews.go.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Madness
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Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
April 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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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.
The idea seems to have been invented by Americans.
April 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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.
The idea seems to have been invented by Americans.