The Bulletin
Plain writing on contracts, member questions, and the work of representing people.
Fired at 32: How Flight Attendants Built a Union
The first flight attendant union was founded August 22, 1945. Its first contract created seniority bidding and a grievance procedure. Eighty years of rules — marriage bans, age limits, weigh-ins, cabin smoke, unpaid ground time — and how each one ended as contract text.
AI Contract Chatbots for Unions: What's Real, What's Risk
Grounded legal AI tools still hallucinated 17–33% of the time in Stanford's study; open-ended GPT-4 hit 43%. What that means for a collective agreement chatbot, which risks are real, and what a union should demand from any vendor.
Will AI Replace Union Reps? What Stewards Should Actually Watch For
The lookup work is automatable. The judgment work — grievances, arbitrations, organizing — isn't. What unions are winning in 2026 contracts, and a six-question checklist for any AI tool.
The 3 A.M. Voicemail: Why Your Best Reps Are Burning Out
The same forty questions arrive every month, at every hour, and they land on the two people who always answer. What that costs a local, and what it leaves no time for.
Why We'll Never Call This 'AI'
Words carry commitments. What we call this tool shapes what members expect of it, and what they're right to demand when it's wrong.