About 50 Detroit Historical Society workers are pushing for union representation, bringing a fresh labor campaign to one of the city’s major cultural institutions just months after Detroit Institute of Arts employees won recognition.
The effort surfaced in a filing with the National Labor Relations Board last Friday, which lists 50 workers at the Detroit Historical Society as petitioning for a representation election.
The workers are part of the organization that operates the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum and oversees a collection of more than 250,000 artifacts, according to the Detroit Historical Society. AFSCME also lists the Society among the cultural institutions where it represents museum workers, describing organizing around pay, scheduling and workplace conditions as a central part of its museum-sector work.
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