How to Fight Back Against AI

IATSE secured AI protections in its TV/theatrical agreement: productions must notify the union before deploying AI tools, workers retain rights over their work, and AI cannot be used to eliminate covered jobs without bargaining.

UK media union Prospect negotiated AI clauses into contracts at several major publishers, requiring consultation before AI deployment, prohibiting AI-generated content from replacing union-covered work, and ensuring journalists retain authorship rights over AI-assisted pieces.

After a historic strike against the Big Three automakers, UAW secured contract language requiring advance notice and bargaining before any automation or AI deployment affecting workers, retraining rights for displaced workers, and enhanced severance if jobs are eliminated due to AI.

After a 118-day strike, SAG-AFTRA secured groundbreaking AI protections in its TV/film contract: studios must get consent and pay actors before creating AI replicas of their likeness, and background actors cannot be scanned without compensation. The deal set the standard for AI protections in labor …

CWA launched the 'No AI Without Labor Protections' campaign, securing contract language at multiple companies — including some major call centers — requiring advance notice and bargaining before AI deployment, plus retraining guarantees for displaced workers.

The WGA's new contract with studios prohibits AI from writing or rewriting literary material, and bans using AI-generated content as source material that could undermine writers' credits. Writers can choose to use AI tools, but studios cannot require them to. The WGA deal was the first major creativ…

The Teamsters secured language in UPS and freight contracts requiring the company to bargain before deploying any AI or automation technology that affects bargaining unit jobs, and banning the use of AI in discipline and performance monitoring without human review.

After NEDA announced it was replacing its human helpline staff with an AI chatbot named Tessa, laid-off workers and advocates launched a public campaign exposing that Tessa had already given harmful advice to people with eating disorders. The campaign led to NEDA suspending the chatbot and sparked n…