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May 17, 2022 - SAM guards rally for union contract
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Seattle Art Museum security guards join the wave of union efforts.
The push comes amid a growing trend of labor organizing in U.S. museums and a flurry of high-profile union votes locally and nationally.
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May 17, 2022 - SAM guards rally for union contract
5/17/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The push comes amid a growing trend of labor organizing in U.S. museums and a flurry of high-profile union votes locally and nationally.
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(soft music) Security guards at the Seattle Art Museums downtown and Volunteer Park locations are pushing to unionize.
The organizers say they want more of a voice in workplace decisions and in shift scheduling.
They also want a seniority pay system, higher wages to account for Seattle's cost of living, and reinstatement of payments to their retirement plans which were cut earlier in the pandemic.
Union organizer Josh Davis said, he noted that a lack of employees say in workplace safety issues during the pandemic amplified a feeling of powerlessness.
In particular, the lack of recourse to deal with patrons who refuse to wear mask at various instances.
If successful, the union would include roughly 65 full-time and part-time museum security officers and dispatchers.
Many of them also artists who work at the Seattle Art Museum and the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
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