Elaine Velie at Hyperallergic.com reports striking Workers employed at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, an Upper Manhattan institution dedicated to Portuguese and Spanish art, picketed outside the Upper East Side home of Board Chair Philippe de Montebello earlier this week.  The group of around 20 went on Strike on March 27th and has not been paid since.  The Hispanic Society’s Professional Workforce (Curators, Conservators, Librarians and educators, among other Employees) Unionized in July 2021 after the museum eliminated their Pension Plan.  The Workers had long accepted lower wages in exchange for pensions and free health care. They joined United Auto Workers Local 2110, which represents Museum Workers across the City.  Negotiations for the Workers’ first Union contract began in September 2021, but ground to a halt over health care: The museum wanted to eliminate their Employees’ free insurance.

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