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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
@paulsonn.bsky.social @nelp.org
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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
The law just requires companies to offer a tipping option before checkout, rather than after your order is delivered. Both companies used to give consumers the option upfront but then switched as retaliation for the minimum pay laws passing a couple years ago
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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
What does the data say? www.nelp.org/insights-res...
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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
Here’s what I had to say about the bills at the city council back in December: s27147.pcdn.co/app/uploads/...
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It builds on the success of the food delivery worker minimum pay standard, which increased wages to $19.78 an hour—while NYC’s app delivery industry continues to thrive.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The landmark package of bills passed by the City Council would ensure better pay transparency, safeguard worker tips, and extend the city’s nation-leading minimum pay rate to include grocery and package delivery workers for companies like Instacart and Amazon Flex.
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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
Excellent work @jmlstein.bsky.social @rdbinns.bsky.social
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
6/ In sum, Uber is using its AI algorithms to squeeze more value out of workers, while drivers are earning less and their working conditions are worse. It's one example of the "enshittification" of work from AI and surveillance capitalism--and it's a story that won't stop with Uber.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
5/ Working conditions are also worse. Drivers now spend more time waiting for trips than carrying passengers, and pay is much less predictable. This forces them to organize their lives around an algorithm without knowing what they'll earn.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
4/ Uber is also capturing much more "surplus value" (the revenue generated per on-trip driver hour minus labor cost) with dynamic pricing, mostly by taking a higher percentage of high-value fares, a phenomenon obscured by the overall average take rate.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
3/ Meanwhile, Uber’s median take rate in the UK increased from 25% to 29%. On some individual trips, Uber pocketed more than 50% of the fare, with higher take rates concentrated on more valuable trips. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm
Introduction of ‘dynamic pricing’ also coincided with company raising trip prices, researchers finds
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
2/ The data show a significant drop in driver pay after dynamic pricing was introduced. Average hourly pay fell from £22.20 to £19.06--before factoring in driver expenses. For a subset of 114 consistent drivers, 93 of them now earn less per hour.
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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
Excellent work @jmlstein.bsky.social @rdbinns.bsky.social
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
6/ In sum, Uber is using its AI algorithms to squeeze more value out of workers, while drivers are earning less and their working conditions are worse. It's one example of the "enshittification" of work from AI and surveillance capitalism--and it's a story that won't stop with Uber.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
5/ Working conditions are also worse. Drivers now spend more time waiting for trips than carrying passengers, and pay is much less predictable. This forces them to organize their lives around an algorithm without knowing what they'll earn.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
4/ Uber is also capturing much more "surplus value" (the revenue generated per on-trip driver hour minus labor cost) with dynamic pricing, mostly by taking a higher percentage of high-value fares, a phenomenon obscured by the overall average take rate.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
3/ Meanwhile, Uber’s median take rate in the UK increased from 25% to 29%. On some individual trips, Uber pocketed more than 50% of the fare, with higher take rates concentrated on more valuable trips.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
2/ The data show a significant drop in driver pay after dynamic pricing was introduced. Average hourly pay fell from £22.20 to £19.06--before factoring in driver expenses. For a subset of 114 consistent drivers, 93 of them now earn less per hour.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
That's why @nelp.org is making the case for greater transparency--so drivers know what they'll earn, and researchers & policymakers can better understand this industry.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
6/ To protect this model, Uber has aggressively opposed transparency, suing Colorado over disclosure requirements and now refusing to share its take rate figure with shareholders.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
5/ Drivers once had a per-mile and per-minute wage floor; now they earn as little as the algorithm deems possible. And Uber does the same on the other side of the ledger, repeatedly probing customers to figure out the highest price they’re willing to pay on every trip. www.nelp.org/ubers-price-...
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Uber’s Price-Gouging and What We Can Do About It - National Employment Law Project
Uber has reached record profitability by gouging both consumers and drivers.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
4/ Because of its extensive data surveillance on drivers and riders, and its increasingly powerful AI algorithms, Uber can now pay drivers whatever they are willing to accept for a trip.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
2/ New analysis from Len Sherman and Columbia Business School shows how Uber’s shift to “upfront pricing” in 2022 decoupled prices from wages, allowing the company to maximize its “take rate”. The company now pockets about *42%* of each customer fare, up from 32% at the start of upfront pricing.
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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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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
5/ Drivers once had a per-mile and per-minute wage floor; now they earn as little as the algorithm deems possible.And Uber does the same on the other side of the ledger, repeatedly probing customers to figure out the highest price they’re willing to pay on every trip. www.nelp.org/ubers-price-...
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Uber’s Price-Gouging and What We Can Do About It - National Employment Law Project
Uber has reached record profitability by gouging both consumers and drivers.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
4/ Because of its extensive data surveillance on drivers and riders, and its increasingly powerful AI algorithms, Uber can now pay drivers whatever they are willing to accept for a trip. Drivers once had a per-mile and per-minute wage floor; now they earn as little as the algorithm deems possible.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
2/ New analysis from Len Sherman and Columbia Business School shows how Uber’s shift to “upfront pricing” in 2022 decoupled prices from wages, allowing the company to maximize its “take rate”. The company now pockets about *42%* of each customer fare, up from 32% at the start of upfront pricing.
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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 · 20/05/2025
Because nobody’s paying attention and everybody knows who Cuomo is
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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
Or you can read my attempt to summarize where the law of arbitration has gotten to and what it's done to low-wage workers across the country: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
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FAQ on Mandatory Arbitration in Employment - National Employment Law Project
How mandatory arbitration weakens workplace laws and lets employers off the hook
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Anyway, everybody should listen to the excellent @daveyseligman.bsky.social talking about forced arb, price-fixing at Uber, and much more on the Computer Says Maybe podcast with @alixdunn.com: www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/work...
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Computer Says Maybe
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It's just another way that corporate power, abetted by a captured Supreme Court, has stacked the deck against workers and has degraded the condition of American jobs--leaving people poorer, more precarious, and less safe.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Is Uber misclassifying its delivery drivers by calling them independent contractors? Are fast-food franchises systematically stealing pay from their minimum wage workers? Who knows! Courts won't give you an answer as long as there's an arbitration clause.
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Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It means employers can break the law without ever running the risk of being sued. It also means that companies can pioneer illegal new business models without a court ever stopping them.
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