That's a question of ownership: do actors own their "voice" or their "likeness" when what's being generated is sourced from material that was a work for hire? And it's a discussion to have in a courtroom, it's not something the union has the power to control.

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Telling employers "you can't use this technology" outright would be dictating how they run their business, rather than bargaining wages and working conditions, which is where a union's legal power ends.

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Saying "no," blanket statement, means they can challenge us with the NLRB and say we're not negotiating in good faith. We would lose that challenge. Either we negotiate in good faith, or we let them do whatever they want.

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Because it is a mandatory subject of bargaining. The alternative is to let the employers classify it as permissive, which means they can do whatever they want www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/r...

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You might wanna re-read this thread. That is not an option, legally speaking.

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