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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.
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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.
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Maintenance Workers at Metropolitan Museum Receive 63% Pay Increase
After more than a year of negotiations, licensed HVAC assistant maintenance workers will receive $35 per hour while the annual salaries for new hires will jump from $45,760 to $72,800.
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Guggenheim Workers Successfully Vote to Unionize
More than 90 workers will join Local 30, a union that includes installers and maintenance workers at New York’s MoMA PS1.
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New Museum Union Rallies Against Stalled Contract Negotiations During Summer Exhibition Openings
The workers chanted and handed out leaflets on Tuesday night as its summer exhibitions opened to visitors, amassing a crowd of nearly 300 supporters.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Employees Vote in Favor of Union
BAM administrative workers and cinema staff voted in favor of forming BAM’s seventh union by an 82% margin. "It's heartening to see workers coming together and standing up for themselves," one employee tells Hyperallergic.
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Guggenheim Workers Are Looking to Unionize as Wages Stagnate and Demands Increase
Around 90 workers are organizing for better wages and benefits. "It's about transparency," one worker said. "We have no autonomy."
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Security Guards at Seattle's Frye Art Museum Have Unionized [UPDATED]
Workers have partnered with city officials who are calling on the museum's management to voluntarily recognize their union.
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The Louvre Closes As Staffers Strike and Demand Solution to Overcrowding
Record attendance numbers at the Paris museum have not scaled with security personnel on staff, and employees say the situation is now dangerous.
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Workers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Move to Unionize
A BAM employee says the union for administrative workers and cinema staff has been in the works for a year and a half, after workers “noticed a lack of transparency and discrepancies in codes of standards of conduct that BAM was holding for itself.”
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Tenement Museum Workers Vote to Unionize
The workers report low wages, scarce benefits, and unstable working conditions, calling the conditions unfitting of a museum that was founded to celebrate the labor struggles of immigrant families.