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Adam Seth Litwin @ProfASLitwin

@CornellILR scholar with an interest in tech change and the employment relationship, often with a focus on the healthcare sector. Scooter commuter.đŸ›”

Joined March 2014
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Adam Seth Litwin@ProfASLitwin
29 Sep 2023
“Workers can and should have a say in when and how they use artificial intelligence at work.” ...my take on the #WritersStrike and agreement in today’s @nytimes #AI. Want to Save Your Job From A.I.? Hollywood Screenwriters Just Showed You How. nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opini


Opinion | Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I. (Published 2023)

Technology isn’t typically on the table during labor negotiations. But the W.G.A. deal offers a blueprint for bargaining around artificial intelligence.

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Breaking my X silence to highlight the work of my @cornellilr senior honors thesis student, Genevieve Galluccio. Looking forward to advising her work on How Entertainment Guilds Have Responded to Innovations in Tech undergraduateresearch.cornel

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Attention aspiring scholars in Work & Employment and Industrial Relations... Just one week remains until the deadline for @cornellilr #PhD program applications. #GlobalLaborandWork
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Replying to @sagaftra
@sagaftra members will be right both to ratify this agreement AND to question the sufficiency of its #AI protections. #AI exemplifies the need for ongoing vigilance and negotiation around all sorts of work-related issues. @JustineBateman npr.org/2023/11/30/121600565


Some SAG-AFTRA members are concerned about AI provisions in tentative deal

Hollywood performers are voting on whether to ratify a new contract with major studios and streamers. Some union members question whether the deal protects them from artificial intelligence issues.

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...and btw... how fabulous is it that @JustineBateman is a super well-informed, articulate, computer scientist with a deep understanding of Hollywood labor relations? That made me smile.
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Great session in Intro to ILR this morning #ILR4066—a panel of recent-ish alums—as part of our “One Major; Endless Possibilities“ series. Thank you, panelists!
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“If professors abdicate their responsibility to ensure the freedom of all their students to speak their minds, what happens in the classroom hardly deserves the name of higher education.” Honored to sign onto this some of my @Cornell colleagues. cornellsun.com/2023/11/13/li


LITVAK | The Middle East Conflict and the Faculty's Responsibility

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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“Solidarity still pays off...” —Adam Seth Litwin dailyherald.com/news/2023111
 via @dailyherald #ILR2050

From Hollywood to auto work, organized labor is flexing its muscles. What now?

NEW YORK - Once again, U.S. labor unions are flexing their muscles in the national spotlight. In Hollywood, the actors union reached a tentative deal with major studios late Wednesday to end a...

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Adam Seth Litwin retweeted
Cornell ILR School@cornellilr
7 Nov 2023
Article discusses the impacts of #AI in workplaces and references a New York Times opinion essay written by @ProfASLitwin, associate professor at ILR. bit.ly/46Zsu37
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3 Nov 2023
Great "Worker Militancy" conversation w/ @ProfASLitwin @ellenstutzman Harry Katz @TheScheinman via @ecornell_online View the recording by registering here: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynote


Worker Militancy

The Writers Guild of America strike lasted five months and resulted in a deal this fall that curtails the encroachment of artificial intelligence and increases pay. The contract also provides new...

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So many questions about this thing I found in the coffee/copy room just now. Did the person initially leave an entire cookie, thinking that someone should simply claim it in its entirety?Did the person who took the bite think that others would come take bites of their own? Etc

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“Nonunion autoworkers are not the enemy. Those are our future union family.” —Shawn Fain, UAW president nytimes.com/2023/10/23/busin


Nonunion Workers Are Playing a Big Role in the Autoworkers’ Strike (Published 2023)

The three U.S. automakers say they are already at a disadvantage to nonunion rivals while labor leaders hope that big gains in negotiations will inspire workers in Southern states to unionize.

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OK... Here are some new "classes" of jobs that #AI may well bring about... wsj.com/tech/ai/the-new-jobs
 via @WSJ #ILR2050 #ILR1510 #ILR4066

The New Jobs for Humans in the AI Era

Artificial intelligence threatens some careers, but these opportunities are on the rise.

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Alex Colvin@alexjscolvin
16 Sep 2023
Offering some thoughts on the UAW negotiations and strike action: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20


Watch Cornell's Alexander Colvin on UAW Strike - Bloomberg

Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations School Dean, Alexander Colvin, discusses the UAW strike and whether or not he believe a deal will be made this weekend as negotiations will resume....

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Unions need to get involved early in negotiating new technologies... and the @UAW and @WGAWest @WGAEast @sagaftra strikes make clear that labor gets it. Story quotes me, @TomKochan, @daronacemogIu, and Lisa Kresge. nytimes.com/2023/09/16/busin
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Tech Fears Are Showing Up on Picket Lines (Published 2023)

What’s being called the “summer of strikes” comes at a time when workers increasingly fear new technologies will threaten their jobs.

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In the midst of today’s fabulous #LaborDay writing/coverage, don’t miss my deeper dive re: @WGAWest @WGAEast #WritersStrike entering month #5. Unions can save bosses and shareholders from themselves... themessenger.com/opinion/hol
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"Taken together, this one-two punch effectively makes union organizing possible again..." —Harold Meyerson Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead prospect.org/labor/2023-08-2
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Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead - The American Prospect

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.

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“Employers want to improve retention. Offering a way for the workers to have some voice, and interviewing workers as they exit, can be a very important way for them to figure out solutions.” —Erica Groshen #ILR2050 nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/sc


The Shortage in School Bus Drivers Is Getting Worse (Published 2023)

Looking for an alternative, the school district in Louisville, Ky., turned to a software program — leading to chaos. It’s one of many districts struggling to get students to class.

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How concerned should we be that #AI will reduce demand for frontline service-sector labor? I think I'm OK with it—certainly in this #LaborMarket. Welcome to the drive-through, can AI take your order? wsj.com/articles/can-ai-repl
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Can AI Replace Humans? We Went to the Fast-Food Drive-Through to Find Out

Chatbots are being put to work in fast-food restaurants across the U.S. Our columnist drove through a Hardee’s about 30 times to put it to the test.

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"Streamers may be able to weather a long strike because of the large inventory of content they’ve built up. If customers keep paying their monthly fees, Litwin said, Netflix and other companies “can hold on for a long, long time.” @cornellilr @LERassn nytimes.com/2023/07/19/arts/


Can I Watch ‘Barbenheimer’ Despite the Hollywood Strikes? (Published 2023)

People sympathetic with the strikers may be concerned, but the actors’ and writers’ unions say it’s OK to go to the movies and use streaming services.

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Modern-day #Luddites amongst Kenyan tea pickers. And like their forebears... who can blame them? We owe them (and probably most workers) some serious institutional reforms in the wake #TechChange. semafor.com/article/06/13/20
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Kenya’s tea pickers are destroying the machines replacing them

Kenyan tea pickers are destroying machines brought in to replace them during violent protests that highlight the challenge faced by workers as companies increasingly rely on automation to cut costs.

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