by Justin | May 31, 2021 | Museum Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2110, Whitney Museum
Yesterday, the Whitney informed the NLRB of its intent to waive the need for an election, thereby voluntarily recognizing the union — a huge win for its workers, who had been in contact with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110 since the museum’s reopening in the...
by Justin | May 25, 2021 | Brooklyn Museum, Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110
Employees at yet another of New York City’s major museums have taken steps to form a union. This time the organizing effort is taking place at the Brooklyn Museum, where a proposed union would represent a mixture of full- and part-time workers. The Technical, Office...
by Justin | May 18, 2021 | Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110, Whitney Museum
Employees of the Whitney Museum of American Art are the latest group of museum workers in the city to take steps toward forming a union. They are also the most recent example of museum employees who have chosen to organize under the wing of a union not everyone would...
by Justin | Apr 25, 2021 | Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110
Workers at the Portland Museum of Art have voted to form a union. The museum says that workers voted 16-10 to join UAW Local 2110, which represents technical, office and professional workers at workplaces including the ACLU and the Museum of Modern Art....
by Justin | Apr 1, 2021 | Museum Workers, UAW Local 2110
Almost two dozen Maine artists are speaking up in support of a union organizing effort at the Portland Museum of Art that is dragging into its seventh month. Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers, which hopes to represent the employees, also recently filed charges...
by Justin | Mar 8, 2021 | Museum Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2110
On Monday, the staff of the sprawling modern art museum MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts declared their intent to form a union. A press release detailed concerns around equity, compensation, job security and a round of layoffs in 2020 due to the COVID-19...
