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Dan Ocampo

@danocampo.bsky.social
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Labor & employment law, gig workers, economics & finance. Long-suffering Spurs fan. Here to learn something new

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NELP Staff Association @nelpstaffunion.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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...
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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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National Employment Law Project @nelp.org · 19/12/2025
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-...
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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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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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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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 · 16/12/2025
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.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
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Uber and DoorDash Try to Halt N.Y.C. Law That Encourages Tipping
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National Employment Law Project @nelp.org · 12/12/2025
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.
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National Employment Law Project @nelp.org · 11/12/2025
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 📢
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
$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...
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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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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Proud to stand alongside my friends at Los Deliveristas Unidos yesterday to celebrate another major victory for New York City’s delivery workers.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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
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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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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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/
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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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Worker Info Exchange @workerinfox.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New - Oxford University research in partnership with @Workerinfox exposes deepening exploitation of Uber drivers by algorithmic pay www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/new-res...
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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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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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...
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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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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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...
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025
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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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.
A picture of an incredibly grim room, filed with depressed-looking African men, in filthy clothes laying on filthy mattresses in a filthy detention center with bars on the window. Everyone looks like the life has gone out of them.Global development
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Fresh evidence of violence at Libyan detention centres as boats turned back
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Amnesty International says sexual abuse and beatings rife at camps for those forcibly returned after trying to cross the Med
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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".
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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
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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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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Thank you for endorsing me for Mayor of NYC Chi Ossé! Let’s make shit work.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Madness
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
Sociologist Roberto Briceño León, who has been studying violence in Venezuela for 30 years, says the U.S. is misinterpreting the characteristics of members of Tren de Aragua, or TdA. While gangs such as El Salvador’s infamous MS-13 and Comando Vermelho in Brazil are known to compel their members to tattoo themselves as a sign of allegiance or pride, the practice is not common among Tren de Aragua members. “Venezuelan gangs don’t identify themselves with tattoos,” he told the Miami Herald. Gang members’ identities, he said, “are rooted in other elements: the area where they live, the neighborhood where they came from, and the figure of a leader.”
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Just blatant lying and ridiculous nonsense from all of the people in this room. Send them all the Hague
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
BREAKING: En banc DC Cir. court of appeals reinstates members of the NLRB and MSPB that Donald Trump attempted to remove
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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.
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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I WANT TO BELIEVE IN ABUNDANCE I wrote my review of the new book, what I liked, what political opportunities it presents, and where I was left unsatisfied. Here are some sections, and you can read the whole thing here. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
How are there actual law professors reading stuff like this and concluding that the problem is that TROs have gone too far
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.
Beyond the statute, the President’s inherent Article II authority is plainly
violated by the district court’s order. As a function of his inherent Article II authority
to protect the nation, the President may determine that TdA represents a significant
risk to the United States, that it is intertwined and advancing the interests of a foreign
government in a manner antithetical to the interests of the United States, and that its
members should be summarily removed from this country as part of that threat.
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Tom Jawetz @tomjawetz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
While Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans are about to slash funding for DC to shower ICE with $$$, DHS displays for the world more waste, fraud, and ABUSE. How much money was wasted on this grotesque and useless display? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
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ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities (Gift Article)
A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse www.propublica.org/article/coro...
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In a 10-Day Span, ICE Flew This Detainee Across the Country — Nine Times
Even as the Trump administration discouraged the public from flying, Sirous Asgari was shuttled from Louisiana to Texas, New Jersey and back on chartered flights full of migrants. He still hasn’t been...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This piece from @daralind.bsky.social back in 2020 is a good example of what this can look like in practice. www.propublica.org/article/coro...
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In a 10-Day Span, ICE Flew This Detainee Across the Country — Nine Times
Even as the Trump administration discouraged the public from flying, Sirous Asgari was shuttled from Louisiana to Texas, New Jersey and back on chartered flights full of migrants. He still hasn’t been...
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Columbia’s total non-response to the federal enforcement of political speech crimes on campus is a stunning betrayal of its students and of its most fundamental values. zeteo.com/p/scoop-emai...
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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is a very important story. It is also important to understand that this is how ICE operates. They disappear people. Family members and lawyers often cannot get information from ICE about where inmates are located and they cannot contact them. It has been this way for a long time.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Fundamental rights aren’t only guaranteed by the courts. They exist, or don’t exist, through the decisions made by all kinds of people in positions of authority.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 06/03/2025
Comprehensive review of the evidence that policy is dealing an inflation and demand shock from Matt Klein.
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The U.S. Chooses Stagflation
Policy choices over the past six weeks risk pushing a previously strong economy into a world of faster inflation and slower real growth.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why are there 18 Democratic senators voting to repeal Biden crypto tax rules? There’s a supermajority in the Senate for essentially nothing except apparently giving tax breaks to crypto platforms
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If you also totally didn’t understand the SCOTUS foreign aid ruling this morning and had no idea what Alito was talking about in his unhinged dissent, then go and read this from @stevevladeck.bsky.social
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If Trump “eliminates” the Department of Education (which, to be clear, obviously he cannot do by EO), does that mean he’s also eliminating my student loans? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department
Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The only only actual problem solved by a social wealth fund is "our government is bringing in way more revenue than we are spending, and we want to avoid using that fiscal space to meet any social needs."
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.
Zuckerberg is at the vanguard of a dramatic reversal in attitudes across Silicon Valley, whose traditionally liberal workforces have been shocked by a broad backlash against diversity policies and employee dissent.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If you put a cardboard cutout in a suit no one would even notice hakeem jeffries was missing.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Lmao our savior Paul Clement
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.
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