Europe’s Subservience to the United States w/ Ben Wray
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Europe’s Subservience to the United States
Ben Wray
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Wray to discuss the Europe’s capitulation to pressure from the United States on Nexperia, as well as on digital protections and labor rights that could have big implications for the future of work.
Guest
Ben Wray is a researcher specializing in the platform economy. He writes the Gig Economy Project newsletter and his most recent report for the ETUC is called Uberisation.
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Links
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Ben wrote about the brief attempt by the Dutch to nationalize Nexperia.
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In leaked documents from 2012-2017 Uber executives recognize their own illegal activity and refer to themselves as ‘pirates’.
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Spain recently ordered Meta to pay €479m fine for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)