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Snøhetta architects make a bid to unionize the firm’s New York studio
May 23, 2023 // Snøhetta employees’ action marks the third time architects at a private-sector architecture studio in the U.S. took that step. Designers at SHoP Architects in New York moved to unionize in December 2021, later dropping that bid. Employees at Brooklyn-based Bernheimer Architecture joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers last fall, making the firm the first unionized private-sector architecture studio in the U.S.
Workers at Architecture Firm Snøhetta Announce Their Attempt to Unionize
May 11, 2023 // After a failed unionization attempt occurred at SHoP Architects in 2021, New York firm Bernheimer Architects announced last year that they were being voluntarily recognized, making them the first private sector firm to successfully do so in the United States. "When we started talking about a union, the word was so, so taboo," Jennifer Siqueira, who previously worked at SHoP and left to join Bernheimer, told Dwell last year. "But since then the conversation has totally shifted."