Tenement Union Can’t See How Other Half Lives
Thursday, March 6th, 2008On a blustery evening at Chelsea Piers, union members from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum had the door slammed in their faces outside the museum’s 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner.
The Tenement Museum Union, affiliated with United Auto Workers Local 2110, has been trying to organize part-time and per diem workers at the cultural institution for more than a year. Museum management repeatedly has said it only will recognize a union that includes both full-time and part-time employees. Full-time workers, so far, haven’t organized.
