This article examines how labor unions are negotiating artificial-intelligence protections into collective bargaining agreements across multiple industries. It highlights NewsGuild reporters at McClatchy Media newspapers who struck over AI concerns, AFSCME Local 328 at Oregon Health and Science University addressing AI in clinical operations, and the Alliance of Health Care Unions securing a labor-management task force on technology at Kaiser Permanente. The piece documents more than 175 union contracts nationwide establishing guardrails such as advance-notice requirements, surveillance prohibitions, and mandatory human review of AI-generated content.
