By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026The Hollywood writers are the *only workers in the world* who have successfully beaten back the use of AI in their workplace, and they didn't do it by making recourse to property rights. 34/ 15214
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026The Writers Guild is a *union* and it enjoys a weak form of "sectoral bargaining" (where all the workers in a field bargain with all the businesses at once) called "multi-employer bargaining": pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/h... 35/pluralistic.netHow the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1291
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026The Hollywood writers' strike was an unqualified victory for the writers, who defended their *labor* rights to co-determination when it came to the use of new tools on their jobsite. 36/ 1351
