https://poweratwork.us/another-world-is-possible?

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
Between THE #NEWMUSEUM
And LOCAL 2110, #UAW
OCTOBER 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024
https://decolonialhacker.org/article/severance

Art and Labor podcast for art workers trying to understand their place in the brutal capitalist systems of power.
https://artandlaborpodcast.com/

Artsploitation
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/against-artsploitation-kopel

Interview
https://burnaway.org/magazine/lily-bartle-dana-kopel-new-museum-union/

#artworkers #LaborMovement #Museumworkers #Organize #solidarity #unions

“Another World is Possible”: Liberatory Unionism in the US Art Museum Labor Movement

Art museum workers in the U.S. are in the midst of the most exciting period of labor organizing in decades. Since the launch of the New Museum Union in January 2019, there has been a 223% increase in new organizing at private, not-for-profit art museums alone. Though precarious working conditions long predate the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a boom in organizing in its wake after institutional responses exposed and exacerbated worker exploitation, unsafe working conditions, and layoffs and furloughs, predominantly affecting front-of-house workers.

Arts Patron Aims to Help Underrepresented Museum Professionals.
Allison Berg has established a #foundation to elevate the careers of six emerging visual arts curators, educators and administrators each year
https://archive.ph/QrBBX #museums #museumprofessionals #museumworkers #art

📰 "Curatorial fellowships launched for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people"

📢 Curating Visibility programme offers career development opportunities to tackle underrepresentation in sector

Full article here: https://museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2024/01/curatorial-fellowships-launch-for-d-deaf-disabled-and-neurodivergent-people/

Three #fellowships will run between April 2024 and June 2025 and aim to bring more #diversity to the UK museum sector.

#MuseumsAssociation #MuseumNews #neurodiversity #MuseumWorkers #museums #GLAM #curatorial #disability #deaf #disabled #neurodivergent

Curatorial fellowships launched for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people - Museums Association

Curating Visibility programme offers career development opportunities to tackle underrepresentation in sector

Museums Association

There is no end to the museum exodus.

Higher salaries are a major reason why mid-level museum workers are leaving for commercial gallery jobs but instability caused by the Covid pandemic is also a factor.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/28/there-is-no-end-to-the-museum-exodus #museums #museumworkers

There is no end to the museum exodus

Higher salaries are a major reason why mid-level museum workers are leaving for commercial gallery jobs but instability caused by the Covid pandemic is also a factor

The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

For her monthly column, Elizabeth Blasius discusses pay and labor equity in the history and cultural work sectors, highlighting the unionizing efforts of the Minnesota Historical Society

🔗 https://mascontext.com/observations/the-passion-tax-is-history

#MinnesotaHistoricalSociety #NAPE #AFSCME #HistoryNebraskaUnion #MuseumWorkers

The “Passion Tax” is History

For her monthly column, Elizabeth Blasius discusses pay and labor equity in the history and cultural work sectors, highlighting the unionizing efforts of the Minnesota Historical Society, the largest state history organization in the nation and the oldest cultural institution in the state.

MAS Context

"Two-thirds of museum workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, if not the field altogether, according to a survey out this month. The top reasons? Burnout and low pay."

🔗 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/15/why-do-us-museum-workers-want-to-quit

#MuseumWorkers #MuseumsMovingForward #BurnOut #LowPay

Why do US museum workers want to quit?

Employees in the sector increasingly find their jobs exhausting and unfulfilling—but how can they avoid burnout at work?

The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

"Mutual Aid at Work" provides organizers with a resource to form their own mutual aid networks in the Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM) community, brings awareness to existing mutual aid groups and efforts to support LAM workers, and provides possible pathways organizers may take

#MutualAid #LAM #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #MuseumWorkers #DLFLabor #AWC

🔗 https://sites.google.com/view/mutualaidatwork/

Mutual Aid at Work

Our Goals

Researchers at the Goeldi Museum, Brazil's second oldest museum and the first scientific institution in the Amazon, discovered 710 new species of plants, animals and fossils over the past two decades. And yet by the end of this year, the research staff will be reduced by nearly 60% over what it was ten years ago, due to retirements, deaths and no new hires since 2012.

Saving the Amazon is also about valorizing science and scientists.

http://jcnoticias.jornaldaciencia.org.br/26-o-fim-do-museu-goeldi/#

#amazonia #MuseumWorkers #BrazilianPolitics #BiodiversityCriss @anthropology @ethnobiology

26. O fim do Museu Goeldi - Jornal da Ciência

“O atual esvaziamento da instituição, projeto em curso desde 2012, ameaça décadas de trabalho, ou melhor, o trabalho de gerações de pessoas que se comprometeram com a conservação da Amazônia e com o bem-estar de suas populações”, alerta Nelson Sanjad, historiador e tecnologista sênior do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, em artigo para o Jornal da Ciência

Jornal da Ciência

One thing that doesn't get talked about openly enough in the museum world is the joy of befriending many incredible senior aged volunteers and the grief when they pass away.

#Museums #MuseumWorkers

I'm looking for #MuseumWorkers #archivists #Curators #PublicHistorians and #CollectionsManagers and anything related. Loved that community on the old site and looking to find some folks to follow. I work at a small historical society and "wear many hats." I don't contribute a lot to the discussion but I love to keep up with new ideas, strategies, museum jokes, and solidarity / general morale improvements. 🥰🤓💕