Please join us today (Thursday 4-27) at 12:30pm EDT for a discussion of union organizing at museums:
Labor Unions and Museums: We Need to Have This Conversation!
What does the wave of successful organizing efforts mean and how will it change the field? Deborah Schwartz and Alicia Graziano will talk about the harsh realities of organizing in the face of anti-union leadership, how a campaign succeeded, and what it means to put a union in place. The session will entertain questions and talk openly about the aggressive anti-labor sentiment that most museum directors and trustees espouse and why unions in museums pave the way for a more transparent, equitable and stable institutional culture.
Deborah Schwartz is an independent museum consultant. From 2006 to 2020 she was President of Brooklyn Historical Society, and in 2020, she successfully led the effort to merge BHS with the Brooklyn Public Library. Schwartz was Deputy Director for Education at the Museum of Modern Art from 2002 to 2006, and before that, Vice Director for Education and Program Development at the Brooklyn Museum. She began her museum career as an educator and member of AFSCME DC37, NYC's largest municipal employee union.
Alicia Graziano worked at the New Museum in NYC as a Membership and Development Associate and was active in the successful organizing campaign in 2019. She went on to become an Organizer for Local 2110 of the UAW. She is currently a J.D. Candidate at Northeastern University, with a focus on labor law.
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