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Sotheby's Art Handlers Resolve Contract Dispute: IT'S OVER!
Teamsters Local 814, which represents the 42 workers of the Sotheby's art handlers' union, has settled their 10-month dispute with the Sotheby's auction house.
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Sotheby's Locked Out Art Handlers Lend a Hand to OWS
To add to our continued coverage of Occupy Wall Street updates today, the ties between OWS and Sotheby's locked-out art handlers are growing stronger. Artinfo posted today that the art handlers are joining Occupy Wall Street in a protest against the movement's eviction from Zuccotti Park earlier thi
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Reporting from the Front Lines at Wednesday's Sotheby's Protest
At the huge protest by the Local 814 art handlers in front of Sotheby's this Wednesday, the divide between the 1% and the 99% in the art world could not have been clearer. While protesters chanted, whistled and booed from the heavily barricaded picket lines, wealthy auction attendees were rushed int
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Things Heat Up at Last Wednesday's Sotheby's Protest, 4 Protesters Arrested
In one of the biggest protests against Sotheby's lockout of the art handlers of Teamsters Local 814, over 200 people, including members of Occupy Wall Street and students from Hunter College and NYU, came to the auction house's offices on Manhattan's Upper East Side to demand the fair treatment of w
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Sotheby's Closes Galleries to Keep Both Protesters and Public Out
First Sotheby's locked out their art handlers, and now they are locking out the general public. GalleristNY reports that the auction giant is limiting access to its 10 floor galleries where some of the houses' most valuable lots are on view before this week's sales.
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Fight Returns to New York as Locked Out Art Handlers Continue Protest Against Sotheby's
Last week, Sotheby's art handlers took their fight to London but today they're back in New York and manning the picket lines on York Avenue.
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BREAKING: Sotheby's Hiring Crozier Fine Arts to Cross Picket Line? Teamsters Fighting Back
Teamsters representatives have been circulating a letter to Chelsea galleries indicating that they will be protesting jobs by Crozier Fine Arts, who they say have crossed their picket line by partly replacing their workers at Sotheby's. The Teamster are finding back and threatening to protest all fu
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Sign the Petition Against the Sotheby's Lock Out!
News may be slowing down about the Sotheby's lock out, but the labor dispute between art handlers of Teamsters Local 814 and the auction giant is dragging into its third month now. Luckily supporters both on and off-line (Occupy Wall Street lent their voice last week) are not shutting up about this
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#OccupyWallStreet Invades Sotheby's Auction in Solidarity with Locked-Out Art Handlers
Occupy Wall Street and Sotheby's art handlers have joined forces under the banner of fighting for worker's rights and protesting corporate greed. Yesterday, members of Occupy Wall Street disrupted a Sotheby's art auction to show their solidarity with the union art handlers of Teamsters Local 814 who
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New Energy Among Art Handlers As They Continue to Fight Sotheby's Lock Out
Hurricane Irene may be fast approaching, but there was another type of storm in full force yesterday in front of the Sotheby’s auction house on 72nd and York Avenue in Manhattan. Art handlers of the Teamsters Local 814 union, who were locked out of their jobs at Sotheby’s earlier this month,doubled
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FROM THE PROTEST: Sotheby's Anti-Union Games, Dupes Art Handlers
The Upper East Side is alive today with shouts of "UNION POWER" as Sotheby's art handlers took to the streets to protest a new contract agreement that would drastically jeopardize their benefits.