Workers at the California Academy of Sciences, the 170-year-old museum and research institute in San Francisco, have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election on union representation.
If a majority of the over 360 eligible staffers vote to approve, they will form CalAcademy Workers United as an affiliate of Service Employees International Union Local 1021.
Ronna Kelly, director of communications for the Academy, released a statement from the organization saying,"Allowing staff to vote is the most democratic way for all voices to be heard on this important decision." Although she got her job back two years later, Langlands was one of those laid off, which she said occurred with just one day's notice.The Academy spokesperson Kelly noted that other San Francisco museums, including some with union contracts such as the de Young and the Exploratorium, also experienced COVID-related cuts.
"In my department we went from six to three people but there was no discussion about what work people did and what people we needed to make that work continue," Matson said."It wasn't based on seniority and the reasons for who was let go and who stayed were completely unknown to us." In addition to existing wages, leaders of the union campaign say they want predictability with regard to future raises and yearly cost-of-living increases. Currently, organizing committee members say, individual workers' relationships with management and comfort level of advocating for their own wage increases have an overblown effect on the raise they do or don't get.
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