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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

If we're workers, then we derive our power from *labor* rights. The Writers Guild - the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace - won their AI fight with a *strike*: pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/h... 30/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of "sectoral bargaining" (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called "multi-employer bargaining." Bosses *hate* sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act. 31/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

Getting other kinds of creative workers into multi-employer bargaining arrangements will be a *lot* of work - and repealing Taft-Hartley and restoring sectoral bargaining will be even harder. 32/

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