Unionized tech staff at The New York Times accuse the company of deploying artificial intelligence tools to monitor employees’ work without informing their union. The complaints, reported by multiple outlets, center on claims that the AI surveillance violates the workers’ collective bargaining agreement and misrepresents what union members do. Workers, speaking through representatives of the Tech Guild, argue that the use of the tools creates an inaccurate or “skewed” picture of their contributions. In statements attributed to Benjamin Harnett, chair of the Tech Guild’s Generative AI committee and a software engineer at the Times, the union says the company’s approach breaches contractual commitments and also fails to provide required notice. The union’s allegation is that the monitoring is being conducted in a way that undermines transparency and affects how the employees’ work is evaluated or understood. The outlets present the dispute as a labor and workplace privacy issue involving AI use, with the union calling for the company to halt or address the alleged surveillance practices. The reports do not provide The Times’ response in the provided text.