"Outside my regular lunch spot in Brooklyn yesterday, a worker dressed as a giant lettuce leaf was handing out samples in the cold. When I asked him how he wasdoing, he replied with a smile, "Can't complain." I took it as a reminder to remain grateful for what I have, no matter where life takes me. Speaking of problematicworking conditions, I encourage you to read Amanda Tobin Ripley's plea to art museumsto voluntarily recognize their workers' unions."
"Museum worker and researcher Amanda Tobin Ripley calls on museum leaders to cut their union-busting tricks and voluntarily recognize their workers' efforts to organize. "Challenging worker eligibility has been a favorite response of museum leaders to this current wave of unionization, as I've discovered in my own experience organizing and researching museum unions," she writes. "There is a clear pattern of museum leadership weaponizing the time between campaign announcement and election to challenge the union's power.""
A call urges museum leaders to stop union-busting tactics and to voluntarily recognize workers' unions. Common union-busting tactics include challenging worker eligibility and weaponizing the time between campaign announcement and election to undermine union power. An anecdote describes a worker in a lettuce costume handing out samples in Brooklyn; his reply 'Can't complain.' serves as a reminder to remain grateful. Additional items mention impressions from Guatemala's Paiz Art Biennial, notes on Becoming the Sea and Kiefer's evocations of rivers, and obituaries for an Italian painter, a filmmaker who chronicled queer life, and a museum curator.
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