What makes the LanguageLine situation a template rather than an exception is that it leaves no visible casualty. No one was fired. The work still flows through human interpreters who still pick up calls for hospitals and courtrooms. What the AI scheduling system did instead was introduce enough unpaid gaps into the workweek that full-time income became structurally impossible — workers describe scrambling to fill hours that no longer chain together into a livable schedule. The interpreters organizing in response are not fighting automation. They are fighting the definition of…