State of the unions: why US museum workers are mobilizing against their employers

by Justin | Feb 3, 2022 | Guggenheim, Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110

It seems that a virulent strain of unionism, born out of lockdown and pressingly of the moment, has swept the US’s museum sector. This is a new form of collective action: remotely formed, digitally optimised, fluent in social communications, diverse in composition and...

New York’s Jewish Museum Staff Push to Unionize

by Justin | Jan 12, 2022 | Hyperallergic, Jewish Museum in New York, Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110

New York’s Jewish Museum staff are the latest to join a wave of unionization drives in art institutions across the country. Yesterday, January 10, they filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) via representatives of Local...

Art Handlers, Curators, and Other Workers at New York’s Jewish Museum Are Seeking to Form a Union

by Justin | Jan 11, 2022 | Jewish Museum in New York, Museum Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2110

Workers at the Jewish Museum in New York are taking steps to unionize, becoming the latest in a long line of museum employees to make demands for collective bargaining. Curators, art handlers, educators, development and retail staff, and visitor experience employees...

Museum of Fine Arts workers on 1-day strike over pay, COVID safety

by Justin | Nov 17, 2021 | Museum of Fine Arts Union, Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110

Pandemic-weary workers at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts went on a one-day strike Wednesday over stalled contract negotiations with management, the latest strike amid an monthslong uptick in labor action nationwide. The MFA Union represents public-facing staff, library...

Museum Workers Are Joining the Growing Labor Movement

by Justin | Sep 23, 2021 | Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110

In the past two years, cultural workers around the U.S. — including those who work in the arts and at cultural institutions like museums and libraries — have joined a burgeoning unionization movement, seeking a means to better wages, greater transparency and a seat at...

Stunning Sweep for the UAW: Three More New York City Museums Unionize With Local 2110

by Justin | Aug 26, 2021 | Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110

It has been a busy summer for union organizing among some of the nation’s most renowned art museums. In New York City alone there has been a spate of organizing efforts just inside of the last month. In a three week span, between July 26 and August 16, art workers at...