"The knee-jerk reaction shouldn’t be, 'OK, well let's get rid of these employees,'" he said. "If we are replacing jobs, we are hopefully looking at our labor as our assets. They are valuable. And (from) the savings that you get from adapting technology, you reinvest that money to retain your employees."
But if that line of thinking doesn’t win out among executives, the Culinary Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 are prepared.
The unions' contracts with resorts in 2018 were the first to guarantee a six-month notice to employees for new technology affecting their jobs. The contracts also enables the unions to negotiate its implementation and requires that employers provide free training for positions created by new automation and AI