Academy Museum Employees Call for Recognition of New Union
thewrap.comAcademy CEO Bill Kramer that they have gathered majority worker support for a new union and asking for voluntary recognition.Three weeks ago, the new union Academy Museum Workers United went public with its intention to unionize with AFSCME Council 36, which represents unions in local government and private nonprofit groups.
After the Academy released a statement saying it would move forward with a union election through the National Labor Relations Board, the AMWU filed its petition this past week for such an election, which if successful would give the Academy Museum’s 180 workers labor representation.
But now, AFSCME and AMWU have announced that a major of the museum’s employees have signed unionization cards and are asking the Academy to avoid wasting the time and money to hold an election by voluntarily recognizing the union.
Along with the formal letter requesting such recognition, AMWU included letters of support from 15 California state assembly members as well as Los Angeles city council members Nithya Raman and Paul Koretz, the latter of whom represents the district the museum is located in.
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