Liz Shuler Wants AI to Reinvigorate the Labor Movement - POLITICO

The head of one of America’s most storied labor organizations sees changing technology as a great risk — and great opportunity. POLITICO illustration/Photos by AP, iStock Tom McGrath is a Philadelphia-based journalist and author. His new book, Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation, will be published this spring by Grand Central Publishing. Liz Shuler was standing inside a university lab one day a few years ago when she saw the future of everything — in a cutting board. At the time Shuler was secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, one of America’s most storied labor organizations, and she’d come to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University with a delegation that included members of Unite Here, the union representing hundreds of thousands of workers in the hospitality industry. Their mission: to get a glimpse at how technology might impact the workplace in the years ahead. It didn’t take long before that impact became clear, at least in the kitch

The head of one of America’s most storied labor organizations sees changing technology as a great risk — and great opportunity. POLITICO illustration/Photos by AP, iStock Tom McGrath is a Philadelphia-based journalist and author. His new book, Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation, will be published this spring by Grand Central Publishing. Liz Shuler was standing inside a university lab one day a few years ago when she saw the future of everything — in a cutting board. At the time Shuler was secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, one of America’s mos