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Denver Art Museum workers vote to form a union, a first for an art museum in Colorado

Two thirds of eligible workers voted in favour of forming a union, animated by issues including adequate staffing, career advancement and wages

Workers at Mass Moca go on strike 'indefinitely' amid stalled wage negotiations

It is the second time in two years that unionised employees of the museum have gone on strike

Faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts reach tentative contract agreement, averting strike

The potential deal between the union and administration came just hours before a vote to authorise a strike

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Denver Art Museum workers launch campaign to form union

Staff at the museum are the latest to join the unionisation movement that has swept across the sector in the US

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Workers at New York’s Jewish Museum ratify their first union contract

The new contract, approved by an overwhelming majority of members, will see staff wages increase 17.5% over the next three years

Exclusive: UK shadow culture secretary to map out first national infrastructure plan for the arts

In an interview ahead of the Labour conference, Thangam Debbonaire also promises action on artist visas, copyright law and artificial intelligence

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Spain seeks to improve artists' rights across EU but labour reforms at home fall short

MEPs back new support measures for creatives following Spain's Statute of the Artist decree, now in political limbo

Guggenheim Museum staff ratifies its first union contract

With 97% of the vote, museum employees signed their first union contract after two years at the bargaining table

Largest museum union in the US ratifies its first contract

More than 500 workers at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh voted to ratify their first contract after 18 months of negotiations

Strike at New York’s Hispanic Society enters sixth week, with ‘no movement’ in negotiations

The strike at the Manhattan museum, which had been on the cusp of reopening after a six-year renovation, has now stretched into its third month

Brooklyn Museum workers hold rally at fundraising gala

Members of the museum’s union, who have been in negotiations with administration over their first contract for more than a year, handed out leaflets to attendees arriving for the annual Artists Ball

Part-time faculty at New York’s New School university are on strike amid fractious contract negotiations

Part-time faculty at the university, which includes the revered Parsons School of Design, account for roughly 80% of all faculty

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Workers at New York’s Storm King Art Center seek to form a union amid $45m campus revamp

Employees of the non-profit it are seeking union representation, but administrators have opted not to voluntarily recognise the unions

After strike and with a hard-won new contract, Philadelphia Museum of Art employees go back to work

Following a contentious few weeks that capped two years of negotiations, workers and administrators are eager to move forward, even if some sore spots remain

Philadelphia Museum of Art workers reach contract agreement, ending three-week strike

Following two years of negotiations and a historic strike by the museum’s unionised workers, employees and leaders agreed to a contract

Brooklyn Museum workers rally at open house to call attention to stalled contract negotiations

Unionised workers lined the main entryway to the museum as visitors arrived for after-hours programming

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Workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are on strike 'until we get the contract we deserve'

After a one-day strike failed to move negotiations forward, unionised workers at the museum have begun an indefinite strike

Philadelphia Museum of Art workers hold one-day strike

The strike by unionised employees of the museum was intended to put pressure on the administration amid protracted contract negotiations

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Staff at the Dia Art Foundation vote overwhelmingly in favour of forming a union

More than 90% of workers voted to form a union at the institution, which operates spaces in Manhattan, Beacon and the Hamptons, as well as site-specific works in Manhattan, Utah, New Mexico and Germany

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Mass Moca workers walk off the job for one-day strike

Unionised employees of the North Adams, Massachusetts museum sought to pressure the institution’s administration amid ongoing contract negotiations

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Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art vote to form a wall-to-wall union

In a vote on 14 July, 89 workers voted to unionise while 29 voted to not, making the museum the latest US art institution to join the labour movement

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After 18 months of negotiations, MFA Boston workers reach their first union contract

The contract was approved by 87% of union members and ensures double-digit wage and salary increases over the next three years

Faculty at the ArtCenter College of Design in Southern California vote to form union

Faculty at the school voted 60% in favour of forming the union, which will represent some 700 people

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Unionised Philadelphia Museum of Art workers rally to push contract negotiations forward

Negotiations between the union and museum leadership have been ongoing since October 2020

Starbucks workers rally outside Museum of Modern Art gala amid nationwide union negotiations

Demonstrators gathered outside the museum's annual Party in the Garden gala to confront honouree Mellody Hobson, chair of the Starbucks board, who they claim is complicit in the company's union-busting efforts

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Unionised workers at MOCA Los Angeles ratify first contract with museum

Negotiations between museum leadership and the union had repeatedly been delayed due to Covid-19, administrative shakeups and more issues

Whitney Museum workers protest outside the institution’s fundraising gala over union contract negotiations

Around 100 demonstrators rallied outside the institution during its gala, hoping to give greater urgency to ongoing negotiations with museum leaders

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Non-tenured faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago hold rally in support of union push

If successful, they would join staff at the school and its namesake museum who voted overwhelmingly in favour of unionising in January