Culinary Workers Union Local 226 represents 60,000 bartenders and restaurant workers in the historically boozy Nevada cities of Las Vegas and Reno. Not caring to wait and see whether AI would chip away at its members’ jobs, the union “negotiated a strong contract in 2018 to win innovative technology language that protects workers when [a] company brings in new technology,” the local said in a statement to ADWEEK. It strengthened these security measures further in 2023.
