NYT Tech Guild fights management over AI surveillance tools

the new york times tech guild filed unfair labor practice charges and grievances against management for deploying ai tools dx and glean without disclosure. the union alleges dx, an engineering productivity tracker, is being used to enforce opaque performance benchmarks in disciplinary settings, effectively creating quotas. furthermore, they contend the knowledge retrieval tool glean facilitates surveillance by allowing managers to query individual employee contributions across internal wikis and emails. the union argues these actions violate their contract's clauses on privacy, job descriptions, and the requirement to bargain over technological changes that impact employment conditions.