#platformworkdirective — Public Fediverse posts

"Wray proposes a detailed series of recommendations to unions for things they should demand in their contracts to maximize their chances to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the Platform Work Directive, such as establishing a "governance body" within the company "to govern data formation, storage, handling and security issues. This body should include shop stewards and all members of the body should receive data training."

He also sets out technological tactics that unions can fund and capitalize on to maximize their use of the directive, such as hacking apps to allow gig workers to increase their earnings. He writes warmly of "the sock-puppet method," where many test accounts are used to place and book work through platforms to monitor their pricing systems to detect collusion and price rigging. This has been successfully used in Spain to create the basis for an ongoing lawsuit over price collusion.

The new world of algorithmic management and the new Platform Work Directive offers many opportunities to organized labor. However, there is always the possibility that an employer will simply refuse to follow the law – as Uber has done, after it was found guilty of violating data disclosure work and was fined €6,000/day until it came into compliance. Uber's now paid €500,000 in fines and has not disclosed the data that the law and the courts require of it.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, but the technological capacity workers and unions develop here can be repurposed to wage all-out digital class warfare."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps

#EU #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #AlgorithmicManagement #Roboboss #GigEconomy #Precarity

"Wray proposes a detailed series of recommendations to unions for things they should demand in their contracts to maximize their chances to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the Platform Work Directive, such as establishing a "governance body" within the company "to govern data formation, storage, handling and security issues. This body should include shop stewards and all members of the body should receive data training."

He also sets out technological tactics that unions can fund and capitalize on to maximize their use of the directive, such as hacking apps to allow gig workers to increase their earnings. He writes warmly of "the sock-puppet method," where many test accounts are used to place and book work through platforms to monitor their pricing systems to detect collusion and price rigging. This has been successfully used in Spain to create the basis for an ongoing lawsuit over price collusion.

The new world of algorithmic management and the new Platform Work Directive offers many opportunities to organized labor. However, there is always the possibility that an employer will simply refuse to follow the law – as Uber has done, after it was found guilty of violating data disclosure work and was fined €6,000/day until it came into compliance. Uber's now paid €500,000 in fines and has not disclosed the data that the law and the courts require of it.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, but the technological capacity workers and unions develop here can be repurposed to wage all-out digital class warfare."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps

#EU #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #AlgorithmicManagement #Roboboss #GigEconomy #Precarity

"Wray proposes a detailed series of recommendations to unions for things they should demand in their contracts to maximize their chances to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the Platform Work Directive, such as establishing a "governance body" within the company "to govern data formation, storage, handling and security issues. This body should include shop stewards and all members of the body should receive data training."

He also sets out technological tactics that unions can fund and capitalize on to maximize their use of the directive, such as hacking apps to allow gig workers to increase their earnings. He writes warmly of "the sock-puppet method," where many test accounts are used to place and book work through platforms to monitor their pricing systems to detect collusion and price rigging. This has been successfully used in Spain to create the basis for an ongoing lawsuit over price collusion.

The new world of algorithmic management and the new Platform Work Directive offers many opportunities to organized labor. However, there is always the possibility that an employer will simply refuse to follow the law – as Uber has done, after it was found guilty of violating data disclosure work and was fined €6,000/day until it came into compliance. Uber's now paid €500,000 in fines and has not disclosed the data that the law and the courts require of it.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, but the technological capacity workers and unions develop here can be repurposed to wage all-out digital class warfare."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps

#EU #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #AlgorithmicManagement #Roboboss #GigEconomy #Precarity

"Wray proposes a detailed series of recommendations to unions for things they should demand in their contracts to maximize their chances to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the Platform Work Directive, such as establishing a "governance body" within the company "to govern data formation, storage, handling and security issues. This body should include shop stewards and all members of the body should receive data training."

He also sets out technological tactics that unions can fund and capitalize on to maximize their use of the directive, such as hacking apps to allow gig workers to increase their earnings. He writes warmly of "the sock-puppet method," where many test accounts are used to place and book work through platforms to monitor their pricing systems to detect collusion and price rigging. This has been successfully used in Spain to create the basis for an ongoing lawsuit over price collusion.

The new world of algorithmic management and the new Platform Work Directive offers many opportunities to organized labor. However, there is always the possibility that an employer will simply refuse to follow the law – as Uber has done, after it was found guilty of violating data disclosure work and was fined €6,000/day until it came into compliance. Uber's now paid €500,000 in fines and has not disclosed the data that the law and the courts require of it.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, but the technological capacity workers and unions develop here can be repurposed to wage all-out digital class warfare."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps

#EU #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #AlgorithmicManagement #Roboboss #GigEconomy #Precarity

"Wray proposes a detailed series of recommendations to unions for things they should demand in their contracts to maximize their chances to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by the Platform Work Directive, such as establishing a "governance body" within the company "to govern data formation, storage, handling and security issues. This body should include shop stewards and all members of the body should receive data training."

He also sets out technological tactics that unions can fund and capitalize on to maximize their use of the directive, such as hacking apps to allow gig workers to increase their earnings. He writes warmly of "the sock-puppet method," where many test accounts are used to place and book work through platforms to monitor their pricing systems to detect collusion and price rigging. This has been successfully used in Spain to create the basis for an ongoing lawsuit over price collusion.

The new world of algorithmic management and the new Platform Work Directive offers many opportunities to organized labor. However, there is always the possibility that an employer will simply refuse to follow the law – as Uber has done, after it was found guilty of violating data disclosure work and was fined €6,000/day until it came into compliance. Uber's now paid €500,000 in fines and has not disclosed the data that the law and the courts require of it.

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers. The Platform Work Directive gives workers and unions a whole suite of new tools to force bosses to play fair. It's not going to be easy, but the technological capacity workers and unions develop here can be repurposed to wage all-out digital class warfare."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps

#EU #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #AlgorithmicManagement #Roboboss #GigEconomy #Precarity

Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/

Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/

Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/

Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/

Help, my boss is an AI! [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/opinion/help-my-boss-is-an-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #AIArtificialIntelligence #AIAct #PlatformWorkDirective #promoted

Help, my boss is an AI! [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/opinion/help-my-boss-is-an-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #AIArtificialIntelligence #AIAct #PlatformWorkDirective #promoted

Help, my boss is an AI! [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/opinion/help-my-boss-is-an-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #AIArtificialIntelligence #AIAct #PlatformWorkDirective #promoted

Help, my boss is an AI! [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/opinion/help-my-boss-is-an-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #AIArtificialIntelligence #AIAct #PlatformWorkDirective #promoted

Help, my boss is an AI! [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/opinion/help-my-boss-is-an-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AI #AIArtificialIntelligence #AIAct #PlatformWorkDirective #promoted

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Bolt lobbying revelations: Estonia official says human error behind missing correspondence https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/bolt-lobbying-revelations-estonia-official-says-human-error-behind-missing-correspondence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AmnestyInternational #Boltapp #ERRNews #PlatformWorkDirective

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

Habemus Platform Work Directive

#PlatformWorkDirective #platformwork #eu #europeanunion #labourrights

The #PlatformWorkDirective is still not dead, even after two defeats by the Member States. Now it's up to the bosses: The Social and Employment ministers will try to agree to the second trilogue compromise on March 11th. Only one of the four countries that blocked the last time (France, Germany, Estonia, Greece) will need to fall for the Directive to pass. #EU #EuropeanUnion

The #PlatformWorkDirective is still not dead, even after two defeats by the Member States. Now it's up to the bosses: The Social and Employment ministers will try to agree to the second trilogue compromise on March 11th. Only one of the four countries that blocked the last time (France, Germany, Estonia, Greece) will need to fall for the Directive to pass. #EU #EuropeanUnion

The #PlatformWorkDirective is still not dead, even after two defeats by the Member States. Now it's up to the bosses: The Social and Employment ministers will try to agree to the second trilogue compromise on March 11th. Only one of the four countries that blocked the last time (France, Germany, Estonia, Greece) will need to fall for the Directive to pass. #EU #EuropeanUnion

The #PlatformWorkDirective is still not dead, even after two defeats by the Member States. Now it's up to the bosses: The Social and Employment ministers will try to agree to the second trilogue compromise on March 11th. Only one of the four countries that blocked the last time (France, Germany, Estonia, Greece) will need to fall for the Directive to pass. #EU #EuropeanUnion

The #PlatformWorkDirective is still not dead, even after two defeats by the Member States. Now it's up to the bosses: The Social and Employment ministers will try to agree to the second trilogue compromise on March 11th. Only one of the four countries that blocked the last time (France, Germany, Estonia, Greece) will need to fall for the Directive to pass. #EU #EuropeanUnion

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

So there is a new deal on the #PlatformWorkDirective after all. From what I hear, the key presumption of employment has basically been hollowed out by leaving it to member states. Now every state gets to decide for itself when a platform worker should be treated as an employee - which destroys the core objective of unifying platform employment across the EU. #platformwork #EU #EuropeanUnion #trilogue #EUParliament #EUCouncil

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

The Council of the #EU has slightly watered down the #algorithmicManagement provisions in the Swedish Presidency version of the draft Directive on Platform Work. Their summary does not outline how, so let's look through... https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10107-2023-INIT/en/pdf #PWD #PlatformWorkDirective #PlatformWork #GigEconomy

#EPSCO ministers are about to discuss the #PlatformWorkDirective - follow live here 👇

https://europa.eu/!8G8Pmd

#EU2023SE

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncilPress/status/1668193651686555649

#EPSCO ministers are about to discuss the #PlatformWorkDirective - follow live here 👇

https://europa.eu/!8G8Pmd

#EU2023SE

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncilPress/status/1668193651686555649

👩‍✈️ 🚴‍♂️ 👩🏻‍💻 Delivery riders, drivers, babysitters and other workers who get work through an app or a website could soon benefit from better working conditions under new EU rules.

Discover more on who digital platform workers are 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective #GigEconomy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668174838647734273

👩‍✈️ 🚴‍♂️ 👩🏻‍💻 Delivery riders, drivers, babysitters and other workers who get work through an app or a website could soon benefit from better working conditions under new EU rules.

Discover more on who digital platform workers are 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective #GigEconomy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668174838647734273

👩‍✈️ 🚴‍♂️ 👩🏻‍💻 Delivery riders, drivers, babysitters and other workers who get work through an app or a website could soon benefit from better working conditions under new EU rules.

Discover more on who digital platform workers are 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective #GigEconomy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668174838647734273

#EPSCO | EU ministers for #employment & #socialpolicy meet to discuss:

🔷 platform work
🔷 equality bodies
🔷 lead limits for workers' health protection
🔷 employment policies in the EU

More 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective
#EuropeanSemester

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668143594488619010

#EPSCO | EU ministers for #employment & #socialpolicy meet to discuss:

🔷 platform work
🔷 equality bodies
🔷 lead limits for workers' health protection
🔷 employment policies in the EU

More 👇

#PlatformWork #PlatformWorkDirective
#EuropeanSemester

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1668143594488619010