NiemanLab: The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool. “Across the U.S., unions have been on the frontline of debates over the ethics and standards of AI adoption in journalism. Currently, 74 established newsroom units represented by The NewsGuild-CWA, the largest news worker union in the country, include some AI language in their union contracts. In a statement, […]

Associated Press: Actors’ union approves 4-year contract with studios and streamers. “Television and movie actors on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to ratify a four-year contract with studios and streaming services, a month after their union leaders negotiated a deal they say provides protections against synthetic actors created by artificial intelligence.”

NJ.com: N.J. union leader: AI and app-based work are racing to destroy the American middle class. “While much of big tech avoids talking about the inevitable consequences of these two advances in order to maximize profit by exploiting workers, low- and middle-income workers are about to be hit with a tsunami of job loss and a drastic reduction in benefits and protections. AI and the intentional […]

RE: https://wikis.world/@bvibber/116666605146141540

You probably heard about @bvibber and @wwu #organizing their workplace! (Never mind about the ham-fisted, probably illegal, bullying from the greedhead bosses: it already backfired spectacularly)

You may not have heard about #PSFA winning our election and #unionizing faculty at Penn State!

Devs and writers and educators and healers and you too, if you earn a paycheck, you're a worker. Your work? It's. Your. Work. You should have a say. YOU TOO SHOULD ORGANIZE YOUR WORKPLACE

#unions #solidarity

Daily Bruin: UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive. “UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images […]

Washington-Baltimore News Guild: VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration. “The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (WBNG), and […]

The Guardian: Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military. “Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.”

Mother Jones: Nevada Brothel Workers Are Unionizing to Protect Their Digital Rights . “According to three women with experience working at Sheri’s, the new contract made an unprecedented play for their intellectual property, one that they worry could be a bid to make money from their likenesses, including through AI, as well as potentially owning a piece of anything they might create while […]

Ubisoft shuttering freshly-unionised Halifax studio, 71 jobs affected

Ongoing "actions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs" hit studio which announced union this week

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-shuttering-freshly-unionised-halifax-studio-71-jobs-affected

#Ubisoft #layoffs #gaming #unions #unionizing