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Jorge Leyton G.

@jleytong.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Law (Profesor Asistente), University of Bristol School of Law. Labour Law and Human Rights. 🇨🇱 en 🇬🇧. (Views my own).

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
US House Speaker Mike Johnson: “We're not at war right now. “We're four days in to a very specific, clear mission, an operation, Operation Epic Fury.” A Special Military Operation, say, just like your pals in the Kremlin.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'll be speaking at this really interesting event on video game workers' unionisation efforts next Tuesday. They neatly illustrate the challenges faced by Freedom of Association's existing legal frameworks. Details below. All invited! @bdfi.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/videogames...
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Videogames and Unionisation: Panel Event
Joint event between UoB and BDFI
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
True then, true now. open.substack.com/pub/orwell/p...
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"History is written by the winners."
First published in Tribune, 4 February 1944
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Today, we launched the 2025 Fairwork Chile Report on working conditions in the platform economy. Despite advances in several areas, significant challenges remain, including questions about the current regulatory framework's capacity to ensure just working conditions. Link: fair.work/en/fw/public...
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Fairwork Chile 2025: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
For all those interested in the challenges that platform work creates for labour regulation (and for those in need of a solution for insomnia), here's my PhD thesis, now available in the University of Bristol's online library: research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
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The Industrial Right to Organise and the challenge of Platform Work: a Comparative Analysis
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Always get caught wondering if he's incredibly stupid or malevolent before remembering he can be both.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The other day I found myself ordering coffee “with a spot of milk”. What have you done to me, UK?
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Glad to finally been able to remove the “Candidate” after the “PhD”.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I silently judge people who order Americanos.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/11/2025
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The War Game is a must-see for anyone interested in the folly of nuclear war.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween! (credits to the unknown author)
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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Missing here is another way unis are managing costs: a de facto hiring freeze across much of the sector (judging by how few jobs are being advertised)
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Onwards, when people ask me about Chile, I’ll just show them this: youtu.be/UEqTIwRrWvA?...
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31 Minutos: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Just finished back to back seminars on opposite sides of campus.
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Leatylrs Friends GIF
ALT: Leatylrs Friends GIF
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 02/10/2025
Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Not every morning you wake up to hear the leader of a potential future government wants to kick you out of the country.
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Marca Chile @marcachile.cl · 18/09/2025
Un sentimiento que nos une, ¡feliz 18! 🇨🇱 La chilenidad se lleva en el corazón y se refleja en la fuerza, alegría, tradiciones y tierras de nuestra patria querida. ❤️ ¡Felices #FiestasPatrias y Viva Chile! Descubre más en 📲 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #ChileDiverso
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It is so sad to hear about Conor Gearty’s passing. I never met him, but I've come across his work on several occasions, which is always inspiring and illuminating. A recent piece he wrote on academic writing has helped me with motivation on my last leg of the PhD. RIP.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
11/09/1973, a day that will live in infamy.
The Chilean presidential palace being bombarded during the military coup that took place on 11/09/1973.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Kirk’s shooting has echoes of Calvo Sotelo’s murder in 1936. I hope I’m wrong.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
So, at the risk of upsetting folks, we need to be aware that two things can be true at once. It can be true both that 1) the chilling effect on speech on campus existed and was bad but that 2) the application of state power to silence academics is much, much MUCH worse.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Can't imagine how it must feel to be afraid of speaking in my mother tongue for fear of being profiled. Empeñados en hacer cosplay de los peores regímenes de la historia.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Platform companies have deployed the term "disruption" as a tool for deregulation in such an effective manner that I instinctively look for synonyms every time I want to discuss their effect on labour regulation.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The ILO Digital Labour Platform Tracker is an amazing tool for all researching the platform economy. No more homemade translations of Latin American and Spanish provisions in my papers. Great work by Uma Rani and all her team! digitallabour.ilo.org/homepage
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Homepage | Digital Labour Platform Tracker
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Happy feast of Saint Alberto Hurtado sj, patron of Chilean workers. From the introduction of his 1950 book “Sindicalismo” (Trade Unionism): “It is a well-proven fact by history, that the rise of the working class has always been the result of their own efforts, having reached a mature state”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2025
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
One day, you decide to use an astronomical analogy in your thesis, cause, yes, you are a nerd. Then it goes out of hand, and you find yourself reading about types of galaxies and their characteristics to find the one that fits the analogy better.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I need to share the amazing new stadium my beloved football club is about to inaugurate. Man, I wish I could be there.
A view of the Claro Arena, CD Universidad Católica's new stadium.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Sunday early morning views.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Exactly right. They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work. It’s cheat codes all the way down.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Godspeed, Captain Lovell.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Besides my disappointment as a kid of the 90s, I hope the irony of having someone known for playing the most famous illegal immigrant as an ICE henchman is not lost on anyone.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Some day, I hope to have enough experience and prestige as an academic to write a piece on comparative labour law with a section called "What to compare when you are comparing" (hopefully everyone still gets the reference by then). Will it be frowned upon, @husajaakko.bsky.social?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I am generally a big fan of the BBC - but this is a truly terrible 'both sides' *push notification* to send out to people in this country about this news event
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/08/2025
Raise UK gambling taxes to fund removing two-child benefit cap, Gordon Brown says on.ft.com/4549YZ2
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Raise UK gambling taxes to fund removing two-child benefit cap, Gordon Brown says
Former prime minister says reform could secure £3bn to lift half a million children out of poverty
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
When will it become acceptable to say “somehow Palpaltine returned” as an equivalent of Deus ex Machina? Are we there yet?
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
No, automated grammar reviewer, I am not repeating words by mistake. There is value in repetition, cadence and emphasis in academic writing.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Nobody asks, and probably this will help no one, but I come from a country with a physical and digital ID system (Chile). Well used, it's an incredible tool for a modern society, and, despite some problems, Chile is a good example. (1/3).
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
More like, "Neatly play out"
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Ahh, the struggle to make English-speaking academic publishers and platforms understand that we Latin Americans usually have two last names, and that I'm not "Jorge García" but "Jorge Leyton García". Don't get me started with my second name...
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The most creative Human Rights academic could not have devised an exam question with such outlandish (and worrying) scenario.
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Jorge Leyton G. @jleytong.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Working here has its perks (like the view).
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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