"The decision to strike at all was not something that the unit rushed into. This was something that only happened because of the absolutely wild length of time that we've been negotiating, and, frankly, the intransigence from our senior management to agree to a fair contract."
"The reality is, this is journalism in 2026. I'm not naive enough to believe that layoffs won't happen, especially with the industry doing its latest pivot to artificial intelligence."
ProPublica workers, represented by their union, staged a 24-hour strike due to frustrations over prolonged contract negotiations. The union seeks seniority protections and just cause stipulations to safeguard against potential layoffs in an AI-driven journalism landscape. Despite ProPublica's history of no layoffs, the union emphasizes the need for a system to address layoffs as a reality of modern journalism. The ongoing shift towards artificial intelligence has intensified conflicts between newsrooms and their unions nationwide.
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