{"id":43163,"date":"2023-12-11T20:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43163"},"modified":"2023-12-11T20:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:47:31","slug":"microsoft-agrees-to-landmark-union-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-agrees-to-landmark-union-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft agrees to landmark union contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has taken agreed to union contract terms concerning the use of artificial intelligence. This marks the first instance of collective bargaining in the company&#8217;s U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, reached with the Communications Workers of America union, applies to several hundred employees at Microsoft&#8217;s game studio ZeniMax. It includes clauses that demand AI systems to be fair and empowering, offering workers a means to raise concerns if Microsoft falls short in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>The contract also mandates Microsoft to notify the union when implementing AI or automation technologies that could affect workers. Additionally, Microsoft has partnered with the AFL-CIO, America&#8217;s largest union federation, to facilitate an open dialogue about AI&#8217;s impact on workers. This move by Microsoft represents a significant shift in its approach to AI and union engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-agrees-to-union-contract-terms-involving-the-use-of-ai-173354643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engaget<\/a> [](https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-agrees-to-union-contract-terms-involving-the-use-of-ai-173354643.html)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has taken agreed to union contract terms concerning the use of artificial intelligence. This marks the first instance of collective bargaining in the company&#8217;s U.S. history. The agreement, reached with the Communications Workers of America union, applies to several hundred employees at Microsoft&#8217;s game studio ZeniMax. It includes clauses that demand AI systems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,57],"tags":[1078,62,275],"class_list":["post-43163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-companies","tag-afl-cio","tag-microsoft","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43165,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43163\/revisions\/43165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}