Three NYC Museum Unions Ratify Contracts, Averting Strikes
Workers at the American Folk Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Guggenheim Museum had bargained for higher pay and better working conditions.
After months of negotiations, the Brooklyn Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have reached agreements with their unionized staff, averting the prospect of strikes. The American Folk Art Museum's union, on the other hand, has ratified its first contract with the institution. These agreements came after a joint decision by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, and AFAM unions to authorize strike action last month, should a tentative agreement not be reached.
This followed a similar decision by the Guggenheim union, which had also voted to strike at the end of June. However, strike action from Whitney staff remains a possibility, with a strike deadline set for Monday, October 5, just before the opening of the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. The Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim had been under intense scrutiny earlier in the year following significant staff cuts, which they claimed were necessary due to mounting financial constraints.
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