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LABOR ARTS NEWS BRIEFS
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Union Reaches Tentative Contract Agreement: Members of AFSCME Council 31 and the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry have reached a tentative agreement ahead of a looming strike date. Read more.
Production Assistants Working on Netflix’s ‘The Four Seasons’ File for Election to Join Production Assistants United: Production assistants and assistants on Netflix's “The Four Seasons” are looking to organize with Production Assistants United, Laborers (LIUNA) Local 724. The union received a supermajority of signed union authorization cards from crew members on the show in October. Read more.
Met Museum Employees Petition to Create Union with UAW
UAW Local 2110 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a vote to form a bargaining unit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The union would represent nearly 1,000 workers, including curators, conservators, retail specialists and educators. Read more.
Saving the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”: Preservationists are rallying to protect D.C.’s 85-year-old Wilbur J. Cohen Building, home to extraordinary New Deal–era murals by artists like Philip Guston and Ben Shahn (above). Despite its status on the National Register of Historic Places, the federal government has fast-tracked it for disposal — a move that could lead to demolition. Living New Deal has launched a petition to save the landmark, calling the murals “a vision of the dignity of work and the hope of reform.” Read more.
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