The Tenement Museum Union has filed a complaint with the labor board against the New York museum, accusing its leadership of unfair labor practices following a round of layoffs that affected the majority of the fledgling union’s members.
The Lower East Side institution, which has been closed due to the pandemic since March, laid off 76 employees last week, as first reported by Hyperallergic. That number reduced the union’s bargaining unit from 89 staff members to just 12, and included all 71 of the museum’s part-time educators—92 percent of the education staff.