Great piece - and thanks for the shout out to our US data worker report with CWA!

“Employers have always claimed broad authority to organize production and introduce new technologies. AI extends that authority by making the labor process more observable, extractable, and reproducible.” @valeriodeste.bsky.social onlabor.org/training-you...

New piece out on @onlabor.bsky.social discussing how workers are increasingly forced to train the AI that may replace them. I argue this opens the doors to new forms of wage theft and exploitation that should be addressed by regulators, courts and collective bargaining onlabor.org/training-you...

🚨 BREAKING - The International Court of Justice has just recognised that the right to strike is protected by international law, under ILO Convention no. 87 🚨 This is a momentous decision that protects the fundamental rights of workers worldwide and upholds the rule of law in workplaces everywhere.

Highly recommend this excellent article by @valeriodeste.bsky.social about how “one of hidden stakes [of the political realignment of the tech right] is who gets to control the workplace & on what terms" and "why labor law belongs at the centre of these debates" www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-vall...

Prof. @valeriodeste.bsky.social has started the final day of our ICTS Conference with a keynote on how social partners can shape technological change, with Marianne Vind, Andreas Holbak Espersen, Oliver Roethig, Ramona Lopez @ccoociudadania.bsky.social & Fernando Berzal bringing in their views.

A super sharp piece on how the politics, culture, and practices of management undermine democracy. This is the guiding idea behind my own research into management-tech, and it's somewhat surprisingly under-theorized given how pervasive being subject to rule by bosses.

A new blog for Social Europe, drawing from a recent keynote. I argue that AI at work is not just about efficiency. It is about managerial power, workers’ voice, and democracy. If democracy is eroded at work, it does not stay there. It reverberates into society www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-vall...

Just joined Substack and wrote a post on how deregulating labour markets has disproportionate gender impact substack.com/@valeriodest...

Sharing a recent keynote: algorithmic management is expanding employer power (hiring, pay, scheduling, monitoring, discipline). Privacy law helps, but we need collective counterbalances - co-determination and collective bargaining - so we stay citizens, not subjects, at work youtu.be/493uQv6gfxg?...

Happy to share the program of an International Conference on Artificial Intelligence at Work that we will hold online and in person in Toronto on January 22 & 23. We have a stellar lineup of speakers and hope to see many of you there or online. Share widely! Register at www.yorku.ca/events/aiatw...

Happy to share the program of an International Conference on Artificial Intelligence at Work that we will hold online and in person in Toronto on January 22 & 23. We have a stellar lineup of speakers and hope to see many of you there or online. Share widely! Register at www.yorku.ca/events/aiatw...

A great blog by @valeriodeste.bsky.social on a proposal for an ILO Convention on Platform Workers - Could not be more topical and could not be more interesting! www.socialeurope.eu/shaping-the-...

✂️ “Simplify”. “Streamline”. “Scale back”. Brussels is all about boosting competitiveness by cutting red tape. The intention to stimulate the economy is laudable, but there is a real risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Trimming will achieve little. theconversation.com/were-critici...

On @ssrn.bsky.social, a new paper with Sangheon Lee @ilo.org on the World Bank's Business Ready project. Focusing on the #B-READY Labor Topic, we highlight significant divergence from ILO standards and domestic labour laws, and an endorsement of very poor quality jobs. bit.ly/BRSSRN

Very thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, titled "New Perspectives on Worker Subordination." Edited by Valerio De Stefano, Sara Slinn, & Eric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto). 🧵👇

go.bsky.app/E9coisV @kanarinka.bsky.social @valeriodeste.bsky.social @hessiej.bsky.social @beckyunions21.bsky.social @nickscott.digital @vdignum.bsky.social @salome.bsky.social @dana.witchy.business

Spent the morning at Markham Campus of York University talking to incoming Sport Management students. (Lots of interest in the Sports Law course!) The campus is really cool. Hung out on the Makr room checking out 3-D printers and our new e-sports lab!!

Another nudge to ease the exodus from Twitter/X: A starter pack of interdisciplinary voices on Bluesky exploring the intersection between employment relations and labor inequalities. Feel free to suggest more people to add to the list!

We all have many new followers since the last couple of days (Hi Everyone!), so I am reposting this blog on “back to office mandates” and overreaching employer authority

@huwthomas.bsky.social @alexjwood.bsky.social @stephross.bsky.social @valeriodeste.bsky.social @eidlin.bsky.social @gencoderrelapalme.bsky.social @kjacobs9.bsky.social are some good names to add.

+ NEW BLOG OUT + Nicola Countouris and I discuss Amazon’s recent “back to office mandate”. This case shows again that employers’ powers, rooted as they are in public law, should be better hold accountable to avoid arbitrariness in democratic societies and… www.socialeurope.eu/amazons-offi...

Finally #platformwork will be regulated in 🇪🇺 Cringey that the 🇩🇪 & 🇫🇷 governments did not support it. Read this first assesment by @valeriodeste.bsky.social & Antonio Aloisi www.socialeurope.eu/gig-workers-...

The Platform Work Directive introduces a shift of the burden of proof in favor of platform workers, and groundbreaking protections against abusive algorithms at work. Not everything that was needed, but a step forward. A preliminary analysis with Antonio Aloisi www.socialeurope.eu/gig-workers-...

My book on digital labour platforms is now open access - and I will be presenting it in Bristol on Tue 28 Nov, 1pm, in room 2.13, Wills Memorial Building. Here is the link to the book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-w...

Also a few quotes from yours truly and reference to a special issue co-edited with Virginia Doellgast in this great story about AI surveillance at the workplace

Despite a good across-the-aisle compromise by the EU Parliament, Member States blocked the Platform Work Directive because they couldn’t get EP to agree to watered-down protection. Unsurprising that Conservatives Govs did so; bizarre that liberals & progressives aligned with them, swayed by lobbying

The ILO submitted to the International Court of Justice the documents about its referral re: the protection of the right to strike in International Labour Law (and ILO Conv 87, specifically). This is likely one of the most important labour cases worldwide this century www.icj-cij.org/case/191