Today, teams of security guards and their supporters circulated around city hall having legislative visits, asking members of cit council to vote against museum funding.
Councilman Bill Greenlee has been talking with us for months about our issues at the museum and has been reaching out personally to museum leaders (the museum in Councilman Clarke’s district but Councilman Greenlee lives there too and is involved in the institution).
As we were wrapping up our day’s work, Councilman Greenlee brought us a letter addressed to him from the museum stating that the museum recognizes the union and “encourages” AlliedBarton to “negotiate in good faith” with the PSOU.
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This might be a big development, or not.
First of all, having had to drag the museum kicking and screaming to do the right thing, I am curious to know exactly how they encouraged their benefactors at AlliedBarton (they donate $15,000/per year to the museum) to do this.
Since this letter is actually to Councilman Greenlee and not a copy of the letter (if any) that they sent to AlliedBarton, we have no idea what, if any thing, has transpired. More importantly, though, should be what the museum will do if AlliedBarton simply tells them, “no.”
If the museum means what they say, the need to be ready to end their business dealings with the company if they do not drop their “request for review” now waiting in a years long line at the National Labor Relations Board.
Unless we have a date for negotiations set with AlliedBarton, we have to continue to ask our supporters to call you city council representative and tell them “No Money Unless The Museum Recognizes The Workers Voice.”
Join the PSOU next Monday, April 12 at 1:30 pm. The museum leaders will be in city hall for their budget hearing.
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