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Art students and faculty rally for the University and College Union strike
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Faculty at UK Art Schools Strike to Protest Pension Cuts

Avatar photo by Zachary Small March 1, 2018March 8, 2023

On Wednesday, despite a snowstorm, students from the Courtauld Institute and other London art schools took part in a national strike organized by the University and College Union.

The Centre Pompidou (photo by Mister No/Wikimedia Commons)
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Strike Forces Centre Pompidou to Close for Fourth Consecutive Day [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 30, 2017March 8, 2023

The strike stems from a change to the status of the museums’ workers set to go into effect on April 1.

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Louvre Security Staff Threaten To Strike as Blockbuster Vermeer Show Causes Disarray

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 8, 2017March 8, 2023

Security workers at the museum plan to strike on Friday, citing “constant physical and verbal aggression” caused by the recent overcrowding.

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First Faculty Lockout in US College History Bars Art Profs from Classes and Studios [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne September 14, 2016September 15, 2016

Since Long Island University locked out the roughly 400 members of the faculty union from its Brooklyn campus on August 31, printmaking professor Hilary Lorenz has not been able to ride her bicycle.

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Jewish Leaders and Activists Pledge Support of B&H Photo Workers Fighting to Unionize

by Claire Voon June 17, 2016March 8, 2023

Two hundred-and-twenty-five Jewish leaders from congregations, universities, and cultural institutions across the nation are calling for B&H Photo Video to end management practices that allegedly violate some of their workers’ rights.

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Federal Agency Finds Labor Violations at B&H Photo, Fines Company $32,000

by Claire Voon February 12, 2016June 15, 2016

Health and safety conditions at B&H Photo Video’s two warehouses in Brooklyn do not meet federal labor standards, investigators with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) have determined, confirming a number of worker allegations against the national electronics retailer.

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B&H Photo’s Warehouse Workers in Manhattan Join Campaign to End Discriminatory Practices

by Claire Voon February 3, 2016March 8, 2023

Discriminatory labor practices, safety risks, verbal abuse, and personal humiliation — these allegations are among the many that workers at B&H Photo Video’s Midtown Manhattan store are making against the nation’s largest non-chain photo and video retailer.

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On Eve of Union Vote, Hundreds of Arts Professionals Sign Open Letter Supporting B&H Photo Workers

by Claire Voon November 3, 2015February 11, 2016

B&H Photo Video workers are continuing to push for unionization and improved work conditions in the national electronics retailer’s two Brooklyn warehouses, and although the company has intensified its attempts to quell these efforts, the campaign is gaining vast public support.

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Workers Fighting to Unionize Claim B&H Photo Threatened “Termination en Masse”

by Claire Voon October 16, 2015February 11, 2016

Just four days after B&H Photo Video employees announced their intention to form a union, describing hazardous working conditions and discriminatory practices at the photo and video retailer’s two Brooklyn warehouses, company representatives allegedly threatened them “with termination en masse.”

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At Art Basel Miami Beach, Private Jet Pilots Picket Their Clients

by Mostafa Heddaya December 3, 2014December 5, 2014

MIAMI BEACH — A little over a dozen pilots from the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots (NJASAP), a union representing the interests of some 2,500 pilots working for the NetJets fractional jet ownership company, are picketing the Art Basel Miami Beach fair.

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New York’s Beloved, Independent, Union-Busting Bookstore

by Jillian Steinhauer November 6, 2014December 29, 2021

On the Books, written and drawn by Greg Farrell and released by Microcosm Publishing, is a firsthand comics account of contract negotiations at the Strand in 2012 — or, as the book’s subtitle puts it, “A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC’s Strand Bookstore.”

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175 Workers Face Lockout at Canada’s National Gallery

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 4, 2014March 8, 2023

The National Gallery of Canada may lock out 175 of its employees next month if negotiations between the museum and the union that represents the workers are not successful.

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