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Non-Tenured Faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute Push to Unionize

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

They cited “intolerable” working conditions, inadequate benefits, and low pay.

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Metrograph Cancels Pro-Union Documentary Event, Drawing Backlash

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

Management canceled a Q&A with the creators of the 1979 film The Wobblies over concerns that it would be “co-opted by activists,” said the film’s distributor.

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Seattle Art Museum Guards Are Trying to Unionize, But It Hasn’t Been Easy

Avatar photo by Amber Cortes April 21, 2022April 21, 2022

Some workers at the museum say they’ve experienced “aggressive union-busting tactics” since organizing.

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Guard the Guards, Not Just the Art, Says Baltimore Museum Union in Demonstration

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu March 22, 2022March 23, 2022

“We want livable wages and to be able to live well,” said ​​Rob Kempton, a security guard. “I think our efforts are warranted, and we aren’t going to go down without a fight.”

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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Picket a Dinner Hosted by Marciano Brothers

Avatar photo by Jennifer Remenchik November 20, 2019April 15, 2020

Usually prepped to dole out exhibition information to museum art-goers, last night the workers had a 400-dollar a plate dinner to protest and pedestrians to inform.

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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Focus Their Attention on a LAXART Board Member

by Matt Stromberg November 15, 2019April 15, 2020

Since 2016, Olivia Marciano has served as the Foundation’s Artistic Director and is today a board member at the arts nonprofit LAXART. Former employees are demanding she speak up.

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Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum

by Matt Stromberg November 8, 2019April 15, 2020

Around 50 workers assembled to protest the foundation’s announcement that it would be laying off its visitor services staff and shuttering its doors to the public. These developments came only days after a group of employees made public their decision to unionize.

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Marciano Art Foundation Abruptly Closes in Wake of Unionization Effort

by Matt Stromberg November 7, 2019April 15, 2020

Citing low attendance, the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced its decision to close indefinitely. The closure came just days after 60 employees publicly announced intentions to unionize.

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Art Handlers Rally in Long Island City Ahead of a Union Vote

by Hakim Bishara October 24, 2019December 29, 2021

“The tactics used against us have been brutal, nasty, coercive,” said one of the workers employed by UOVO, a high-end art logistics company. “What we’re asking for is just the ability to bargain as equals.”

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