WORKER POWER AND AI

Although a young technology, artificial intelligence is already disrupting workplaces all across the United States. How much disruption? How many jobs will be lost? And how will AI affect worker power? Power At Work aims to shed light on all these questions. This section of Power at Work compiles all the blogcasts and posts that address AI and worker power.

Explore all of our latest insights, analysis, and discussions on artificial intelligence and its impact on worker power below. From in-depth articles and expert interviews to our popular blogcasts, discover comprehensive coverage of how AI is reshaping the workplace:

Big Tech Wants AI Without Rules. Here’s How Workers are Fighting Back.

26 Oct 2025 ·

Earlier this month, a report from Senator Bernie Sanders grabbed headlines for the provocative claim that AI-driven automation could destroy 100 million jobs across the country in the next decade. . . .

Speaking Truth to Power: A Review of “Persuasive: 40 Lessons in Communicating for the Common Good”

23 Oct 2025 ·

Combining her life journey with lessons for communicators, Marrianne McMullen’s memoir Persuasive: 40 Lessons in Communicating for the Common Good traces her steps from a Catholic, working-class home . . .

Power At Work Blogcast #107: Artificial Intelligence Training for Union Teachers (and Others)

23 Sep 2025 ·

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Randi Weingarten of the AFT and Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta to discuss the effort by the American Federation . . .

Power, Agency, and Autonomy: The Future of Worker Voice

11 Sep 2025 ·

"SEIU Protest", by Spot Us, CC BY-SA 2.0 This piece was originally published by the Aspen Institute. Every day, millions of American workers play by rules they never wrote, rules that all too often . . .

Fired by an Algorithm? How Curbing At-Will Employment Could Protect Workers from Bossware and AI

31 Aug 2025 · ,

"What are you looking at?", CC BY 2.0, by Jonas B Tech accountability advocates and whistleblowers are raising alarms daily about the dangers posed by unfettered deployment of artificial intelligence . . .

Trump’s AI Plan Promises Jobs, Not A Seat at the Table

28 Aug 2025 ·

Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian This piece was originally published by Tech Policy Press. On July 23, United States President Donald Trump revealed his administration’s plan for AI. . . .

Power At Work Blogcast #103: State Labor Leaders Take on Artificial Intelligence

12 Aug 2025 ·

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by President Lorena Gonzalez of the California Labor Federation and President Chrissy Lynch of the Massachusetts . . .

The weaponization of algorithmic management: Lessons from Amazon’s anti-union campaign in Alabama

08 Jun 2025 ·

Image: Joe Piette via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA-2.0) Published jointly for Power at Work and Work in Progress Employers are increasingly using algorithms and digital devices to control workers. As . . .

How Tech Oligarchs Are Using AI Hype to Push Mass Layoffs

25 Feb 2025 ·

Earlier this month, software firm Workday announced that it would be laying off more than 1,700 workers – or about 8.5% of its workforce – to redirect investment towards artificial intelligence. The . . .

How the U.S. Labor Movement Is Confronting AI

06 Feb 2025 ·

This article was originally published by New Labor Forum When Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent faculty an . . .

Building Worker Power in the AI Age: A Blueprint from DOL

03 Nov 2024 · , ,

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a groundbreaking blueprint to ensure workers—not just employers—shape how AI is used in the workplace. Released in October 2024, these recommendations guide . . .

Voice actors divided by SAG-AFTRA AI deals following strikes for AI protections

17 Oct 2024 ·

This story was originally published in English at Prism. In the past two years, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has gone on strike twice . . .