Daily News | Workers at Philadelphia Museum of Art carry out a one-day strike
engaged in a one-day strike Friday, throwing up picket lines at all entrances to the main museum building, and at the Perelman Building annex on Kelly Drive and the Rodin Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Workers from virtually all museum departments voted to unionize in July of 2020 and have been in protracted negotiations for a contract since October of 2020. They are seeking improvement of wages and benefits and resolution to what union leaders call unfair labor practices — a grievance was filed with the National Labor Relations Board in August.
Adam Rizzo, president of Local 397 of AFSCME DC Local 47, said that “basically all of our members” walked out in the job action. Union membership stands at about 180 workers, from virtually all museum departments — more than half of the museum’s employees.“This is a one-day warning strike,” Rizzo said Friday. “We wanted to show management that we could shut down the museum, which I think we have quite successfully done.
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