Saturday, July 2, 2022

Baltimore Walters Workers United.






Employees at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore are organizing under the name Walters Workers United, and they intend to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 67, citing concerns over pay equity, the health and safety of employees, and “the museum’s top-down decision-making.” 

At this time the Walters Workers United website states:  

We announced our plans to unionize on April 30, 2021, and we have secured supermajority support for a union among our co-workers. Hundreds of community members have signed our support letter and we have even garnered the support of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Baltimore City Council members and the Baltimore City Comptroller. However, the Walters Art Museum still refuses to agree to a union election that would include our co-workers across all departments. Despite this impasse, we will continue to seek a fair path toward union recognition for our wall-to-wall union.

On June 21, 2022 the  Mayor wrote in support:

“Unions give workers the platform to unite and advocate for their own working conditions and deserve to be celebrated,” Mayor Brandon Scott  wrote in a letter to the museum’s board of trustees. “Ultimately, the right of workers to organize and form collective bargaining units is a fundamental component of our democracy and, as such, must be protected.” 


Here is the Walter Workers United website. 
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