Here in New York, about 150 workers at ProPublica held a 24-hour strike Wednesday to demand their first collective bargaining agreement since they organized a union in 2023. Workers are seeking higher salaries, protections against layoffs and an agreement over the use of artificial intelligence. This is Katie Campbell, a documentary filmmaker and journalist at ProPublica.

Katie Campbell: “We’ve heard at the bargaining table that we’re special and that we are not a factory work — we’re not factory workers making widgets. But I think that all workers, regardless of industry, deserve job protections, and we shouldn’t be any different than people who are working in factories or who are nurses or who are teachers. We should be able to have the same kind of job protections that other workers in other industries have.”