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Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild-CWA, says journalists are organizing at a rate not seen since the 1930s as news companies push to automate newsroom work with AI. Schleuss, who helped unionize the Los Angeles Times newsroom after owners rebranded the paper's parent company as Tronc, now leads the largest U.S. news union confronting similar restructuring tied to AI adoption.
Workers at Google DeepMind UK, represented by the Communication Workers Union and Unite, have filed an application with the Central Arbitration Committee asking it to confirm sufficient staff support for a formal unionization ballot. If approved, roughly 1,000 employees in product-focused roles would become eligible for union membership, and Google DeepMind would be legally bound by the ballot's outcome. The move follows unsuccessful voluntary talks between staff, unions and company representatives.
More than 200 employees at the Wikimedia Foundation voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America, with results tallied by the National Labor Relations Board. The unionizing group spans software engineering, finance and communications roles across the roughly 700-person, largely remote nonprofit behind Wikipedia.