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In the U.S., when a publisher signs a licensing deal with an AI company, newsroom staffers don't get a cut. Many newsrooms have licensed their content to OpenAI in bulk, for example. A staff reporter's stories can be used as training data for the latest GPT model, or may surface in ChatGPT's response to a user question. Does that reporter deserve to be compensated directly for how their work is being used by OpenAI? In France, the answer is, increasingly, yes.

For unions, this represents a once-in-a-generation brand opportunity: to reintroduce themselves to the rising workforce not as relics of a bygone era, but as modern advocates who are shaping the future of work.

After a 45-minute meeting between officials from Unite and Birmingham City Council on Wednesday ended without agreement, the independent public body and conciliation service Acas will now be involved in negotiations.

We are the ones that come in quietly when people are having issues or contract negotiations aren't working and are falling apart. We go in and assist.