{"id":184644,"date":"2026-02-04T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/unions-urge-newsom-and-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T01:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:45:23","slug":"unions-urge-newsom-and-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/unions-urge-newsom-and-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions urge Newsom and California lawmakers to rein in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-04\/unions-urge-newsom-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai\">Unions urge Newsom and California lawmakers to rein in AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-04\/unions-urge-newsom-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-04\/unions-urge-newsom-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 21:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.latimes.com\">www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Union Leaders&#8217; Concerns:<\/strong> National union leaders, including Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to workers&#8217; rights and jobs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legislative Response:<\/strong> The California Federation of Labor Unions is sponsoring a series of bills aimed at regulating AI usage in the workplace to protect workers, including safeguards against workplace surveillance and restrictions on AI-related layoffs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Bills:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Senate Bill 947 would require human oversight for AI-based employee discipline\/termination decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Senate Bill 951 requires 90-day advance notice before AI-related layoffs affecting 25 or more workers or 25% of the workforce.<\/li>\n<li>Assembly Bill 1331 (&#8220;No bosses in the bathroom&#8221;) grants workers the right to remove surveillance devices in public bathrooms or employee-only areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urgency and Warnings:<\/strong> Gonzalez and other labor leaders warn that inattention to AI regulation could impact Newsom\u2019s presidential ambitions and argue that collaboration with Big Tech lobbyists is ineffective.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Sentiment:<\/strong> A Pew Research Center survey indicates growing public concern about AI, with 50% of Americans more concerned than excited about its increase in daily life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Newsom&#8217;s Record:<\/strong> Newsom\u2019s spokesperson asserts that the governor has a strong record of fighting for worker rights and has taken a comprehensive approach to AI regulation in California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unions urge Newsom and California lawmakers to rein in AI https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-04\/unions-urge-newsom-california-lawmakers-to-rein-in-ai Publish Date: 2026-02-04 21:21:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/e83b709\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5666x2975+0+401\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fea%2F53%2F47a941bd4d2881fc46dd73f92e37%2Fimmigration-worker-protections-20652.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-184644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184646,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184644\/revisions\/184646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}