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- American labor unions are actively working in 2025 to protect workers from AI-driven job displacement across the United States.
- This effort follows longstanding automation trends and urgent warnings from union leaders about generative AI threatening to eliminate half of low-skilled white-collar jobs.
- Unions demand corporate transparency, political support, and have secured some contract protections like moratoriums on full automation and AI likeness rights.
- Peter Finn from the Teamsters described worker displacement as a "real existential issue," noting AI's threat to jobs may also affect the public at large and cause unemployment rises up to 20%.
- Despite political obstacles, unions face a difficult battle to maintain bargaining power and control as companies race to implement AI technologies with often poor outcomes.
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To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow
Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking of organizing strategy. Amazon employees work to fulfill same-day orders at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Getty Images) In the…
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