Labour organising

Strike at Seattle Art Museum ends as visitor services staff ratify first contract

The new contract raises the base hourly wage and reinstates a pre-pandemic retirement programme

California Institute of the Arts faculty and staff move to unionise

Grievances include changes to healthcare benefits, stagnant wages, layoffs and running the nonprofit arts college like a for-profit business

Workers at California non-profit that supports artists with disabilities are unionising

The organising effort at the Creative Growth Art Center coincides with the organisation’s 50th anniversary and follows the launch of a high-profile partnership with SFMoMA

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Mass Moca employees end three-week strike following dispute over wages

Unionised workers and museum officials have ratified a new deal that raises staff minimum wages to $18 per hour

Staff at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art launch campaign to form union

If their campaign is successful, around 100 workers at the museum would be represented by the union

Unionised University of the Arts faculty prepare to strike after more than two years of contract negotiations

Professors at the Philadelphia art school have been ramping up their attempts to move negotiations forward

Workers at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum are seeking to form a union

The museum recently reopened following a $230m renovation and expansion

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On the eve of a planned strike, Brooklyn Museum workers ratify first union contract

After over two years of negotiations, members of the museum’s UAW Local 2110 union voted to ratify their first contract

London museums close galleries as temperatures reach record high

Staff union claims it pressured the V&A and British Museum to take special measures

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Workers at the Brooklyn Museum vote overwhelmingly to form a union

Represented by a UAW local, curators, conservators, educators and others at the New York institution will now seek to negotiate a contract with management