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LABOR ARTS NEWS BRIEFS
NewsGuild Condemns FBI Raid on WaPo Reporter’s Home: On Wednesday, the NewsGuild-CWA strongly condemned the FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home, calling the action a dangerous assault on press freedom and the First Amendment. Read more here.
Milwaukee Discovery World Workers Vote to Join IAM: Museum staff at Discovery World in Milwaukee have overwhelmingly voted to join the IAM Union, becoming the latest cultural workers to form a union to secure a voice on the job. Read more.
WV Mine Wars Museum Staff Unionize: Staff at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum have unionized, becoming members of the United Mine Workers of America. Read more.
Elmore Leonard’s Lost Picket Line: A newly discovered Elmore Leonard novella, Picket Line, brings his crackling dialogue and hard truths to a farmworkers’ strike—where boredom, tension, humor, and courage mix, and every choice has consequences. It’s Leonard doing labor, and doing it right. Read more.
Museum Workers Claim Their Voice: Workers at major U.S. museums are winning big, with union elections succeeding across the sector. In Museum Leaders, Recognize Your Unions Now (Hyperallergic), Amanda Tobin Ripley explains how museum management often forces elections instead of granting voluntary recognition to preserve control, weaken unions by excluding certain workers, and reinforce racial and job-class divisions. Despite these tactics, Ripley writes, museum workers continue to organize for fair pay, dignity, and a say in institutions entrusted with our shared cultural heritage.
- reports from The NewsGuild, AFL-CIO Daily Brief, UMWA, Northwest Labor Press, Hyperallergic.
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