What can we learn from the Salem Witch Trials?
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What can we learn from the Salem Witch Trials?
A historical exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum traces the political and religious forces that led to the executions of innocent people
Staff at Milwaukee Art Museum move to create ‘wall-to-wall’ union
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Staff at Milwaukee Art Museum move to create ‘wall-to-wall’ union
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which already represents security guards, could cover all the institution’s departments
Philadelphia Museum of Art vote to unionise in 89% supermajority
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Philadelphia Museum of Art vote to unionise in 89% supermajority
The victory for the organising staff comes two days after the museum announced a round of layoffs
‘You can’t exactly walk a picket line in a pandemic’: New York union leader Maida Rosenstein on the crisis for museum workers
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‘You can’t exactly walk a picket line in a pandemic’: New York union leader Maida Rosenstein on the crisis for museum workers
The president of the main museum union talks to us about what the organisation has been doing to secure jobs in the wake of coronavirus