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Wexner Center for the Arts Employees Announce Their Intent to Unionize
—Columbus Alive, March 4, 2022
Wexner Center for the Arts Employees to Unionize
—The Lantern, March 4, 2022
Wexner Center for the Arts Employees Seek to Unionize
—WOSU-FM, March 4, 2022
Wexner Center for the Arts Employees Seek to Form Union
—NBC4, March 4, 2022
Workers at Wexner Center for the Arts Move to Unionize
—Artforum, March 9, 2022
Workers at Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts Move to Form Union
—The Art Newspaper, March 11, 2022
Inside the Worker-Led Push to Unionize the Wexner Center for the Arts
—Columbus Alive, March 25, 2022
The Museum Union Wave
The Museum Union Wave Dossier
—Art Papers
Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions
—Bloomberg, October 4, 2021
‘We are in crisis mode’: Museum Workers are Turning to Unions Over Conditions They Say are Untenable
—Washington Post, November 4, 2021
State of the Unions: Why US Museum Workers Are Mobilizing Against Their Employers
—Art Newspaper, February 2, 2022
U.S. Museums See Rise in Unions Even as Labor Movement Slumps
—New York Times, February 21, 2022
The Art of Organizing: How the Art Institute and SAIC Formed a Historic Union
—NewCity Chicago, February 28, 2022
Why We Need Unions at Art Museums
—Hyperallergic, March 1, 2022
An Artist and Met Museum Guard Whose Work is About Pay: Her Own
—New York Times, March 9, 2022
Learn how others are successfully organizing.
How Gen Z Baristas Are Spreading the Starbucks Unionization Effort
—Time, February 18, 2022
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Clinch a Historic Victory
—Labor Notes, April 1, 2022
Here’s How We Beat Amazon
—Jacobin, April 2, 2022
How Amazon’s Immigrant Workers Organized to Win a Union on Staten Island
—Jacobin, April 2, 2022
How Amazon Employees Won Their First Union
—Slate, April 2, 2022
How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon
—New York Times, April 4, 2022
How Did Amazon Workers Go Up Against a Rich Corporation and Win? Look Back 100 Years.
—NBC News, April 4, 2022
Starbucks Workers Vote to Unionize Six More Stores, Pushing Total to 16
—Washington Post, April 9, 2022