HarperCollins Workers Go On Strike Because “Passion Doesn’t Pay the Rent”

by Justin | Jul 23, 2022 | Harper Collins, Left Voice, Organizing, UAW Local 2110

Yesterday, workers at the “Big Four” publisher HarperCollins went on a one-day strike, protesting the company’s refusal to agree to a fair contract. The workers, who have organized with United Auto Workers Local 2110, are demanding liveable wages, better family leave...

From the Headlines: HarperCollins Union Workers Hit the Picket Line

by Justin | Jul 20, 2022 | Harper Collins, UAW Local 2110

John Maher writes for Publishers Weekly: At 9:00 a.m. on a day expected to reach a heat index of 99˚F, roughly 100 HarperCollins union workers and others were already on the picket line for the first time in decades in front of the publisher’s headquarters in...

From the Headlines: Dia Art Foundation staff announce intentions to unionise

by Justin | Jul 20, 2022 | Dia Art Foundation, Organizing, The Art Newspaper, UAW Local 2110, Unionization

The Dia Art Foundation is the latest cultural institution to join the growing unionising movement. The United Auto Workers (UAW) released a press release today (18 July) further outlining the staff’s reasons for unionising, which includes low wages, job insecurity and...

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...