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🚨WE WON! 🥳‼️
We have a tentative agreement on a contract that will give our members more money and job protections and resolve our ULP.
Our strike is over - we’re going back to work tomorrow!🎉
🧵 Our union — a team of dozens of reporters, editors, graphic designers, and videographers — is currently fighting for sensible AI protections in our workplace. We believe in three basic principles when it comes to artificial intelligence in our newsroom:
More than 80% of our members have signed a petition in support of these principles.
And yet, management refuses to commit to AI guardrails in our next contract.
Today, our members are sharing why they care about sensible AI protections in the workplace.
Support Insider Union by amplifying our LinkedIn post and our members’ stories as they share them.
Together, the readers and workers of Business Insider can create a future where human-made journalism is the unquestionable gold standard.
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Our union is currently negotiating for sensible AI protections in our workplace. We believe in three basic principles when it comes to artificial intelligence in our newsroom: (1/7)
...easier or better.
We want to continue to work in a newsroom that values human labor and trusts its journalists to use the best tools for our work. Business Insider’s leadership can ensure this by agreeing to our AI standards and working with us to build...(6/7)
7/ a strong future for this newsroom.
If you care about journalism staying human-led, and believe that human journalists — not AI — should be at the center of the work they produce, comment and repost to show your support. #NewsNotSlop #NoSlopInOurShop (7/7)
Our management laid off more than 20 non-union coworkers yesterday on the Product & Technology team in the seventh round of layoffs here in four years.
We stand in solidarity with our laid-off colleagues and ask BI CEO Christian Baesler for answers. Our statement:
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On January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus: newsguild.org/guild-member-d…
A message from CWA President Claude Cummings Jr.
Today we honor, as a union and as a nation, Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest civil rights leaders in our shared history.
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We stand with you @nynurses! One union's fight is every union's fight!
Day 9 of the #NYCNurseStrike and @SenSanders and @NYCMayor join nurses on the picket line!
#FairContractNow
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🧵Every day our members rely on access to police radio transmissions to respond quickly to shootings, fires, buildings collapses, natural disasters and other major emergencies so that they can quickly report on and share vital safety information to the public….
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The “Keep Police Radio Public Act” would allow journalists to maintain real-time access to radio transmissions in the state. As of Wednesday, @GovKathyHochul has not signed the act and time is running out....
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Replying to @nyguild @GovKathyHochul
With the possibility of the police ultimately controlling the messaging and speed of transmissions, it clearly presents a disservice to the public. We strongly urge @GovKathyHochul to sign this bill to protect New Yorkers and support a free press.
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2/ Stand with our members and tell media bosses you want news, not slop! #NewsNotSlop
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Word of the year: SLOP! @MerriamWebster
"Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don't want to touch. Slop oozes into everything."
We could not agree more. Keep AI slop out of our news! #NewsNotSlop
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