In an update on the spreading movement of Starbucks workers to organize, nearly 350 more at 14 stores around the country have filed petitions for elections with the National Labor Relations Board. By one estimate, over 2,000 workers in 78 locations have filed for elections in the past two months. (For a fuller account of Starbucks workers efforts, see Labor News page on this website.)
Adding to the number of workers moving toward union organization, professional employees at a number of museums around the country are are forming collective bargaining units and demanding recognition. While workers employed at many of these museums, like security guards and carpenters are already organized, this is a first for curators, librarians, educators, conservators and others on the payrolls. Among the museums where this is taking place are the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Union organizers place the increasing desire of white collar museum arts workers to organize has been the large and growing pay gap between these workers and museum executives.
With the transition away from fossil fuelsto renewable energy, many workers are apprehensive about losing their jobs. A recent article on the website Truthout discusses the role that unions can play in creating the new union jobs that could accompany the transition.
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More Starbucks workers organize
Labor BriefsIn an update on the spreading movement of Starbucks workers to organize, nearly 350 more at 14 stores around the country have filed petitions for elections with the National Labor Relations Board. By one estimate, over 2,000 workers in 78 locations have filed for elections in the past two months. (For a fuller account of Starbucks workers efforts, see Labor News page on this website.)
Who Gets the Bird website, 2/19-2/26
Museum Workers Moving Toward Unions
Labor BriefsAdding to the number of workers moving toward union organization, professional employees at a number of museums around the country are are forming collective bargaining units and demanding recognition. While workers employed at many of these museums, like security guards and carpenters are already organized, this is a first for curators, librarians, educators, conservators and others on the payrolls. Among the museums where this is taking place are the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Union organizers place the increasing desire of white collar museum arts workers to organize has been the large and growing pay gap between these workers and museum executives.
NY Times, 2/22
unions and renewable energy
Labor BriefsWith the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, many workers are apprehensive about losing their jobs. A recent article on the website Truthout discusses the role that unions can play in creating the new union jobs that could accompany the transition.
Truthout, 1/22