The effort by employees of the Portland Museum of Art to form a union has received the support of 40 state legislators, who signed a letter asking museum management to recognize their employees’ right to organize without retaliation.
Museum employees filed a petition to form a union with the Technical, Office and Professional Union Local 2110 UAW in September, citing low pay and lack of job security. They accused museum management of taking an anti-union stance. Museum management responded by saying it was not anti-union, but it didn’t believe a union was “right for our museum.”