News
MOCA Employees Submit Union Cards to the National Labor Relations Board
Employees cited low wages relative to experience, lack of benefits, schedule instability, and high turnover as some of the reasons behind their decision to unionize.
Unions
News
Employees at One of LA’s Largest Museums Announce Plans to Unionize
About 50 employees of the Museum of Contemporary Art gathered outside of MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach’s office this morning and read a statement that formally declared their plans to form a union.
News
Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Picket a Dinner Hosted by Marciano Brothers
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.
News
Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Focus Their Attention on a LAXART Board Member
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.
News
Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum
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.
News
Marciano Art Foundation Abruptly Closes in Wake of Unionization Effort
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.
News
Art Handlers in Long Island City Lose Union Vote by a Margin of Three Votes
Employees of UOVO, a high-end art logistics company, launched a campaign to organize with Teamsters Local 814 earlier this month.
News
Art Handlers Rally in Long Island City Ahead of a Union Vote
"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."
News
Art Handlers Are Unionizing at UOVO, a High-End Art Logistics Company
Workers at the white-glove art logistics company have announced their intention to form a union with Teamsters Local 814 for better healthcare and benefits.
News
After Strained Negotiations, New Museum Signs Five-Year Contract With Union Workers
The workers achieved an across-the-board pay increase of 3% in the first four years of the contract, with a 3.5% increase in the final year.
In Brief
New Museum Union Workers Threaten a Strike Over Contract Negotiations
The workers voted by a 96% margin to authorize a strike if their demands for higher wages, health care benefits, and improved worker safety are not met.
Art
The Story of Labor in New York and What It Requires of Us
City of Workers, City of Struggle at the Museum of the City of New York tracks the evolution of the labor movement as an unpredictable passage of pitfalls and switchbacks.