Why AI workers should unionize now: leverage peaks early, safety is the wedge
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-31
Garrison Lovely lays out a case for AI worker unionization: the industry is starting its disruption with its own engineers and researchers, so their bargaining power is near its peak — but "the workers have a ticking clock."
His proposal: organize the union around safety, then ask the CEOs who publicly say they want to slow AI down to voluntarily recognize it — turning their own safety rhetoric into an organizing lever.
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