(NEW YORK CITY) - On June 6th, Staff at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City will vote on whether to Unionize with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110. 

The American Folk Art Museum, located on Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side, has existed for more than years. 

The wall-to-wall Unit includes Curators, Retail Staff, Educators, IT, Communication Staff and others.

Staff Members cite lack of transparency and a desire for fair wages, benefits, recognition and sustainable working conditions as reasons for Unionizing. 

“I love the Museum, its exhibitions and programs,” Jean Seestadt, who serves as its Manager of Events, says, “but I want employment here to be sustainable over a longer period.  We’ve seen too many great Colleagues leave.” 

The New York City Museum is the latest in a growing movement of Museum Workers to organize, as during the last few years the Labor Movement has seen thousands of Workers in Cultural Institutions decide to Unionize.

Employees at the Jewish Museum, The Dia Foundation, the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hispanic Society of America, Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, MASS MoCA, Film at Lincoln Center, Studio in a School, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston all voted to Unionize with UAW Local 2110 since November 2020.

Similar issues included low pay and lack of job security or opportunity.

UAW Local 2110 also represents Workers at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MASS MoCA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University, Film Forum, Teachers College, ACLU, Center for Reproductive Rights, The New Press, and many more.

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