In a article for The Conversation, Cynthia Srnec and her co-authors explores the controversies surrounding social dialogue for platform workers in France. Classified as self-employed, these workers are in principle excluded from traditional forms of collective bargaining reserved for employees, creating a fundamental tension at the heart of labor regulation. To address this contradiction, the French government established a dedicated body, the Autorité des relations sociales des plateformes d’emploi (Arpe), tasked with organizing representation and negotiation in the sector. The paper assesses the outcomes of this experiment and asks whether negotiated regulation can provide meaningful protections, or whether the reclassification of platform workers as employees remains the more credible long-term horizon.