{"id":289,"date":"2023-08-08T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/guggenheim-museum-staff-ratifies-union-contract\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:50:55","slug":"guggenheim-museum-staff-ratifies-union-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/guggenheim-museum-staff-ratifies-union-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Guggenheim Museum Staff Ratifies Union Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Guggenheim Museum announced Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with its workers\u2019 union after more than two years of bargaining and that nearly 150 curators, conservators and other employees connected with Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers had ratified their first contract.<\/p>\n

The contract goes into effect immediately, providing an average salary increase of 11 percent over the lifetime of the two-and-a-half-year contract, which will run through Dec. 31, 2025. The contract delivers improved health and retirement benefits and includes a grievance procedure with arbitration and a requirement that managers have just cause to fire an employee.<\/p>\n

The museum said in a statement by its communications director, Sara Fox, that it was \u201cpleased to announce that we have reached an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demands for unionization<\/a> coincided with some of the greatest challenges that Guggenheim leaders had faced in the museum\u2019s eight decades. Staff members organized in 2021 during the pandemic, when employees felt great uncertainty over layoffs. The organization was also undergoing a moment of deep reflection after a reckoning on race<\/a> led its chief curator, Nancy Spector, to leave her job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n