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Wex Workers United in the News

Wexner Center for the Arts Employees Announce Their Intent to Unionize
—Columbus Alive, March 4, 2022

Wexner Center for the Arts Employees to Unionize
—The Lantern, March 4, 2022

Wexner Center for the Arts Employees Seek to Unionize
—WOSU-FM, March 4, 2022

Wexner Center for the Arts Employees Seek to Form Union
—NBC4, March 4, 2022

Workers at Wexner Center for the Arts Move to Unionize
—Artforum, March 9, 2022

Workers at Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts Move to Form Union
—The Art Newspaper, March 11, 2022

Inside the Worker-Led Push to Unionize the Wexner Center for the Arts
—Columbus Alive, March 25, 2022

Read up on how the union movement is sweeping the American cultural sector.

The Museum Union Wave
The Museum Union Wave Dossier
—Art Papers

Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions
—Bloomberg, October 4, 2021

‘We are in crisis mode’: Museum Workers are Turning to Unions Over Conditions They Say are Untenable
—Washington Post, November 4, 2021

State of the Unions: Why US Museum Workers Are Mobilizing Against Their Employers
—Art Newspaper, February 2, 2022

U.S. Museums See Rise in Unions Even as Labor Movement Slumps
—New York Times, February 21, 2022

The Art of Organizing: How the Art Institute and SAIC Formed a Historic Union
—NewCity Chicago, February 28, 2022

Why We Need Unions at Art Museums
—Hyperallergic, March 1, 2022

An Artist and Met Museum Guard Whose Work is About Pay: Her Own
—New York Times, March 9, 2022

Learn how others are successfully organizing.

How Gen Z Baristas Are Spreading the Starbucks Unionization Effort
—Time, February 18, 2022

Amazon Workers on Staten Island Clinch a Historic Victory
—Labor Notes, April 1, 2022

Here’s How We Beat Amazon
—Jacobin, April 2, 2022

How Amazon’s Immigrant Workers Organized to Win a Union on Staten Island
—Jacobin, April 2, 2022

How Amazon Employees Won Their First Union
—Slate, April 2, 2022

How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon
—New York Times, April 4, 2022

How Did Amazon Workers Go Up Against a Rich Corporation and Win? Look Back 100 Years.
—NBC News, April 4, 2022

Starbucks Workers Vote to Unionize Six More Stores, Pushing Total to 16
—Washington Post, April 9, 2022