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Labor contracts have quietly become the most enforceable AI guardrail in the American workplace, with Congress producing little beyond roundtables.
The NewsGuild-CWA now holds between 85 and 90 agreements with explicit AI provisions.
At ZeniMax, the video game studio owned by Microsoft (MSFT), a union contract now bars management from deploying new AI tools without first notifying and negotiating with workers.
The coverage numbers About 16.5 million U.S. workers were represented by unions in 2025, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. That is the highest count in 16 years.
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