Workers at Four Pittsburgh Museums Are Unionizing
More than a century after the landmark Homestead strike against Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire, workers at four Pittsburgh museums — including three founded by Carnegie — are unionizing with the United Steelworkers. It’s the latest episode in a nationwide wave of museum organizing.
The Hall of Architecture at the Carnegie Museum of Art. (Wikimedia Commons).
Workers at four museums in Pittsburgh — Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and the Andy Warhol Museum — are unionizing with the United Steelworkers. It’s part of a trend of museum organizing that has been gathering momentum for several years.
Jacobin’s Alex Press spoke to Grace Marston, who has worked at the Andy Warhol Museum for eight and a half years, and Tom Fisher, who has worked at the Carnegie Museum of Art for six years, about unionizing, museum work, and what it means for a union to come home to Andrew Carnegie’s legacy institutions.
Alex N. Press
What led workers at these museums to unionize?
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