CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. Brings Workers’ Voices to CES Trade Show

This week, CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. joined Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, and UNITE HERE President D. Taylor for a panel on AI and the Workforce at the Labor Innovation and Technology Summit. The Summit, which coincides with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), brings together movement leaders and working people to discuss and develop strategies to ensure ethical technology adoption and to provide workers’ perspectives on emerging technologies

As corporate CEOs attending CES touted the latest advancements in AI, President Cummings highlighted CWA’s approach to ensuring that AI is being implemented responsibly. He cited the recent tentative agreement on AI negotiated by CWA members at Microsoft’s Zenimax video game studio as an example of the role that collective bargaining agreements can play, and invited other companies to work with CWA to enable their employees to more easily form unions.

“Worker input is critical for ensuring that AI is human-centered and effective in achieving meaningful goals,” said President Cummings. “Workers have dedicated their labor to the company’s mission and take pride in a job well done. We are ready and willing to partner with management to harness new technologies to augment, not automate, America’s workers.”

CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. discusses the impact of AI on workers with AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler (left) and Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su (right) at the Labor Innovation and Technology Summit.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.