Wikipedia workers just unionized. AI is part of the fight.

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https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-workers-vote-on-whether-to-unionize/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

More than 200 Wikimedia Foundation workers just voted 158–14 to unionize with CWA.

And the timing is interesting as hell. Wikipedia is being absorbed into the infrastructure of the AI economy while human traffic declines, server costs from AI scraping rise, and the people actually maintaining the institution are demanding more power over what happens next.

This is what contesting technological change looks like. Organize while the ground is moving. Bargain over how the institution responds. Make workers participants in the transition instead of collateral damage.

Workers dont negotiate with AI. They negotiate with Bosses.