Examples of technological change agreements

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This section highlights sample collective bargaining agreements that contain comprehensive technological change provisions. These contracts often integrate multiple foundational rights—such as notice, bargaining, participation, and jurisdictional protections—into a unified framework. Many of the individual provisions cited throughout Section 2 are drawn from these agreements. Some of these agreements also include comprehensive technology transition plans that address employment and income security, retraining, and job restructuring, topics explored in greater detail in Section 3.

The examples listed below reflect a range of approaches across sectors and union types. They can serve as reference points for unions and researchers interested in understanding how different contracts structure protections and obligations related to technological change:

• LJEBLV-UNITEHERE-OLMS13 – Technology
  Includes detailed provisions on design-phase notice, union access to prototypes, and a bargaining requirement prior to implementation, along with displacement and training rights.
• UNITEHERE-OLMS69 – Technology
  Addresses multiple foundational rights, including advance notice, access to information, negotiation, union jurisdiction, and protections related to displacement and job transfers.
• NATCA-OPM100 – Technological Changes
  Covers participation across the system lifecycle, field testing notifications, employment and income protections, and bargaining over technology-related compensation changes. 
• AFGE-OPM118 – Technology
  Includes clauses on training, job protection, and jurisdiction over maintenance work.
• NATCA-OPM98 – Technological and Procedural Changes
  Establishes rights to notification and briefings, collaborative testing and development processes, as well as pay and job security.
• PASS-OPM36 – National Airspace Modernization / Technological Changes
  Combines briefings and detailed lifecycle participation with pay and job security.
• APWU-PCBA14 – Technological and Mechanization Changes
  Outlines rights and provisions for notice, committee participation, jurisdiction or new jobs, and training for modified positions.
• IATSE-PCBA30 – Technological Change
  Covers notice, retraining, displacement pay, experimental tech changes, union jurisdiction, and standards for job classification, reclassification, and new pay rates.
• IBT-PCBA7 – Technological Change
  Establishes a national committee for reviewing proposed changes and includes detailed notice, negotiation, and grievance procedures.
• AFGE-OLMS77 – Midterm Bargaining Agreement
  Lays out a structured process for reopening and negotiating articles in response to unanticipated technological developments.

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