{"id":212514,"date":"2026-05-12T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-workers-overwhelmingly-support-union-backed-policies-on-ai-poll-says-us-unions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:15:12","slug":"us-workers-overwhelmingly-support-union-backed-policies-on-ai-poll-says-us-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-workers-overwhelmingly-support-union-backed-policies-on-ai-poll-says-us-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"US workers overwhelmingly support union-backed policies on AI, poll says | US unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/workers-ai-policy-unions\">US workers overwhelmingly support union-backed policies on AI, poll says | US unions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/workers-ai-policy-unions\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/workers-ai-policy-unions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 07:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Strong Support for Pro-Worker AI Policies<\/strong>: Over 90% of surveyed US workers support pro-worker policies on AI, including a requirement for human decision-making on matters affecting employment and advanced guardrails against harmful AI uses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Union Trust as Protector<\/strong>: Labor unions are viewed as the most reliable protectors of workers from AI effects over political parties and employers, according to 38% of respondents.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Transparent Usage Required<\/strong>: 92% of workers support transparency and accountability when employers use AI, emphasizing the need for transparency over AI in the workplace.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>High Importance on Worker Protections<\/strong>: 78% of respondents find it extremely or very important to take action to protect workers from potential AI harms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Union-led Protections in Practice<\/strong>: Examples of workers securing AI protections through collective bargaining, such as editorial integrity and restrictions on layoffs or pay cuts tied to AI, are highlighted by union representatives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US workers overwhelmingly support union-backed policies on AI, poll says | US unions https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/workers-ai-policy-unions Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1f8fac5df4a2e9a0b79c932ddf17542c624e4d35\/617_0_3701_2963\/master\/3701.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=05f57384b69dee98478fe113cae14cd4","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212514"}],"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=212514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212516,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212514\/revisions\/212516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}