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
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
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
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
“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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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.
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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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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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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.