January 28, 2022 Year in review: 2021 was a banner year for Cultural Workers United Workers at museums, zoos and similar institutions are turning to AFSCME’s Cultural Workers United campaign to build power. Read More
January 20, 2022 Historic union wins at Art Institute of Chicago 500 workers at the Art Institute of Chicago and its school have formed a union through AFSCME Council 31. Welcome to the AFSCME family! Read More
November 22, 2021 Historic union election looming at Art Institute of Chicago Workers at the Art Institute of Chicago and the institute’s school have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board seeking union elections. Read More
November 17, 2021 California curator ‘cares not only for the animals at the zoo, but for animals worldwide’ Heather Vrzal, a curator at Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San José, Calif., is a winner of AFSCME’s Never Quit Service Award. Read More
October 05, 2021 Baltimore Museum of Art workers are latest to join a national wave of museum organizing Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art are forming a union – the latest in a national wave of organizing in cultural institutions. Read More
October 04, 2021 Report: Cultural institutions took federal money but still let go of workers A new report released by AFSCME shows cultural institutions accepted taxpayer help to make it through the coronavirus pandemic but kept laying off workers. Read More
August 18, 2021 Walters museum workers demand inclusive union election, hold rally to up the pressure Workers at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum are pushing management to voluntarily recognize their union. Read More
August 17, 2021 Art Institute of Chicago employees are forming a union with AFSCME Workers at the a famed Chicago art museum and school want to form a union to better serve their community. Read More
July 16, 2021 Museum reopens after shutting down following apparent chemical exposure It took collective action to temporarily close The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore after some workers were sickened by a chemical exposure. Read More
June 11, 2021 Philadelphia cultural and museum workers celebrate the formation of Local 397 Philadelphia cultural and museum workers notch a victory by joining Local 397. Read More
May 19, 2021 Cultural Workers United Welcome to Cultural Workers United, our union’s campaign to ensure that workers at cultural institutions nationwide have a voice on the job. Read More
May 18, 2021 S-T McBride honors museum workers Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride spoke to some AFSCME cultural workers to mark International Museum Day. Read More
May 04, 2021 The Walters Art Museum workers in Baltimore plan to form a union Workers at a famed Baltimore museum plan to form a union through AFSCME to gain a valuable voice on the job. Read More
December 23, 2020 Library workers in Oak Lawn, Illinois, are newest AFSCME members Nearly 80 workers at Oak Lawn Public Library in Illinois are now part of the AFSCME family. We welcome them. Read More
September 28, 2020 When a moment of reckoning becomes a moment of opportunity Never Quit Service Award Winner Carre Adams leads the George Washington Carver Museum through a moment of change. Read More
August 18, 2020 Philadelphia museum workers overwhelmingly vote to form a union It wasn’t easy, but workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art persisted – and now have their own union. Read More
July 22, 2020 AFSCME Council 36 reaches settlement with owners of shuttered art foundation Under a settlement procured by AFSCME District Council 36, 70 former visitor service associates at the now-closed Marciano Art Foundation will be paid 10 weeks of severance. Read More
June 08, 2020 Philadelphia Museum of Art staffers seek to unite through AFSCME Workers at the renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art want to form a union to gain a voice on the job. Read More