Vexed by stagnant wages, challenging working conditions and uncertainty over their institution’s reopening, workers at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York have voted 15-1 to unionise, labour officials announced today.
The union, Local 2110 of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, represents hundreds of other museum and university workers in New York and New England. In the last nine months alone, staff members at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, and Film at Lincoln Center and Anthology Film Archives in New York have joined the local, and the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art have embarked on the voting process.