Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

I keep coming back to the labor side of this. Hiring is a term and condition of employment, so unions have a legal interest in how it happens. The AFL CIO has been pushing for workers to have a real say in workplace AI, including bargaining over it (AFL CIO). But most workers have no union, no notice, and no leverage when their employer buys a screening tool. A ban sets the floor that collective bargaining can't reach on its own: no algorithm gets to be the first reader of your resume, period. Individual consent is a fiction when you need the job. Collective rules are how labor protections have always worked, and this one belongs on that list.