Amid plans to move forward with mass layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum, Members of the Institution’s Unions rallied outside the main entrance last week to protest the plan to terminate 47 Employees by March 10th. More than 200 Members of United Auto Workers Local 2110 and American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Local 1502 (District Council 37), along with supporters, made their concerns known to the public and to museum leadership. The Union Workers include Art Handlers, Curatorial Assistants, Maintenance Workers, Clerical Workers, Assistants, Educators, Curators, Conservators, Guards, Retail Workers and Technicians. Chants of “What’s disgusting? Union busting!” could be heard all along Eastern Parkway. Workers from other institutions - including the Whitney Museum, were present to support their colleagues. The rally was planned for the evening of the Chairman’s Dinner - an event for major donors and trustees - to put pressure on the institution, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. “This is about standing in solidarity to fight these layoffs,” Liz St George, one of the affected Workers and the Union Chair for Local 2110 told The Art Newspaper. “The museum is going to have to get the money from somewhere else, not from its Workers, who are the heart and soul of this institution.”  

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