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Ontario public-sector unions push province for workplace AI safeguards
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Ontario unions OPSEU and CUPE are seeking contract protections as they negotiate how public employers can use artificial intelligence, citing concerns about job losses, workplace monitoring and decisions made without human involvement. An arbitration board rejected OPSEU’s request for advance notice of hospitals’ anticipated AI use, saying existing contract language covered technology changes and notice would be difficult to provide. Ontario’s 2024 directives require ministry and agency AI use to be transparent, accountable and supportive of human rights; union negotiations continue.