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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

The 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

The 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

Under the terms of their hard-fought contract, screenwriters don't have to use AI, but they can. For example, writers on a long-running sitcom might train an AI with every script in the series' history, so they can ask a chatbot continuity questions as they beat out a new season of the show. 37/

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