"Fight
at the Museum", NY Press, October 22, 2008
"Worked
Up Over Museum Dispute, Duane Quits Board", The Villager, May
7 - 13, 2008
"Pickled
Protest at the LES Tenement Museum", Village Voice, May 1,
2008
"Guides
Raise Union Awareness at Tenement Museum Fundraiser", The Villager,
April 1, 2008
Beyond
the Pale radio interview, WBAI, March 23, 2008 (MP3 file)
"Tenement
Union Can't See How the Other Half Lives", NYCity News Service,
March 6, 2008
"Tenement
Museum Employees Pushing for Union", Gothamist, March 5, 2008
"Guides
Say Museum is Blocking Union Drive", NY Times, March 5, 2008
"At
Tenement Museum, a Fight Over Unionization", NY Times, March
4, 2008
The
Indypendent, May 21, 2007
The
Jewish Daily Forward, May 18, 2007 (winner
of 2007 Ippie Award!)
The
Villager, May 9 - 15, 2007
NY
Sun, May 4, 2007
NY
Metro, May 3, 2007
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We
are the educators, facilitators and costumed interpreters at the
Lower East Side Tenement Museum. We lead tours of the tenement,
educate visitors about the vibrant immigrant and labor history
of the Lower East Side, and portray the historical figures who
once lived in the tenement.
We
are the heart of the Museum, yet we work on a per-diem basis with
no guaranteed hours and no benefits. We do not receive regular
raises, even to keep up with the cost of living. We have decided
to form a union with Local 2110 of the UAW in order to bargain
with the Museum management over these and other issues.
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On
May 2, 2007 we delivered a letter to Ruth Abram, President of
the Museum, requesting that the Tenement Museum recognize our
union, and that they allow us to demonstrate our majority support
through a count of our signed union membership cards. This method
of forming a union, called a "card count," has been
used successfully in many workplaces, and is currently the subject
of federal
legislation with broad bipartisan support.
Unfortunately,
the Museum has indicated that they intend to challenge our right
to a union by forcing us into hearings at the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB). Under President Bush, the NLRB has taken organizing
rights away from tens of thousands of workers, and has gone out
of its way to reverse precedents set by previous administrations
that were more labor-friendly.
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We
are determined to win our union and make the Tenement Museum a
better place to work through collective bargaining. You can help
by clicking here to send an email
to Museum management!
The
committee celebrates our majority support, May 2, 2007
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