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Terminated Marciano Art Foundation Employees Showed Up to Work Anyway on Friday

Last Friday, the museum’s six dozen “Visitors Services Associates,” who were tasked with overseeing galleries and educating visitors, announced that they were forming a union to negotiate about issues surrounding scheduling, low wages, family leave, and job security.

Terminated Marciano Art Foundation Employees Showed Up to Work Anyway on Friday

Marciano Art Foundation Is Accused of Unfair Labor Practices

Labor organizers in Los Angeles have accused the Marciano Art Foundation, a private museum, of violating federal law by dismissing dozens of employees after they announced that they wanted to form a union.

Marciano Art Foundation Is Accused of Unfair Labor Practices

‘Let us in!’ Marciano Art Foundation staffers show up for work at locked museum to protest layoffs

“We’re here to work! We want to work!” shouted Eli Petzold as he stood before the locked gates of the Marciano Art Foundation. He was quickly joined by a crowd of almost four dozen people who chanted, “Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!”

‘Let us in!’ Marciano Art Foundation staffers show up for work at locked museum to protest layoffs