Posts tagged UAW Local 2110
What the Met museum’s union victory reveals about nonprofit governance
November 6, 2026 // According to UAW, workers cited long-term pay inequalities, lack of job protection, and increasing workloads as reasons for organizing. Alison Clark, a collections manager in the Asian Art department, explained more about the decision to unionize: “The museum often makes decisions without considering or consulting staff, such as changes to our work from home policy and erosion of our health and other benefits,” said Clark, who has worked at the Met for more than 20 years. “Right now, we’re contending with several large-scale capital projects that displace people and create a lot of additional work for the staff. Unionizing is the only way for us to have a strong collective voice to address concerns with the museum.”
Catapult to Be Sold, End Operations
October 23, 2026 // The statement did not name the buyer but said the union was notified that “continued employment with the prospective buyer is not an option.” The Catapult website currently lists 25 employees, including Koch, who is CEO, and publisher Alyson Forbes. The union includes around 20 employees in editorial, design, marketing, publicity, production, operations, and rights, PW reported in April. News of a sale comes six months after they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a vote on unionization, citing a need for “job security, wages, and a need for greater transparency from company leadership.” An “overwhelming majority” voted to join UAW Local 2110 via an election, the union announced in June. It said Wednesday it is negotiating a separation agreement with the company.
Publishing’s ‘Hot Labor Summer’
August 26, 2026 // HWC organizers told PW they had been organizing on and off since 2022 and decided to go public this April. Something was in the air. Weeks earlier, employees at Catapult Book Group had launched their own union, and after HWC, staffers at University of Chicago Press and Dark Horse Comics announced union drives in quick succession. HWC, the Catapult Workers Collective, and the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild all won their union elections, while Dark Horse Workers United received voluntary recognition from management. In each union’s public statements, employees expressed strikingly similar reasons for organizing: inadequate pay, large workloads, and limited potential for advancement. They all cited, in their own words, what HBG organizer Julia DeVarti, an associate editor at Little, Brown, called publishing’s “passion tax”—workers’ tendency to “be exploited for working in an industry we love.”
Eric Carle Museum Staff Seek Union Vote
August 5, 2026 // Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to allow employees at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., to vote on whether to unionize. The local represents museum, university, publishing, and nonprofit staff in New York and New England.
Dream Team of Three Congressional Primary Winners Joins UAW Union Rally for Columbia University Researchers
July 5, 2026 // Three recently elected Democratic nominees for Congress — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander — spoke at a Tuesday rally for CPW-UAW Local 4100, the union that represents 1,600 postdoctoral workers at Columbia University. The lunchtime rally was held in a pedestrian plaza outside the university’s massive medical center in Washington Heights. Drawing over 200 participants, it took place on the day CPW-UAW’s current contract was set to expire and right before a bargaining session between the union and Columbia. As of Wednesday afternoon, the university and the union have yet to settle on a new contract.
Hachette Employees Seek to Unionize
April 28, 2026 // The HWC would be the largest union in trade publisher history, according to the announcement, comprising hundreds of in-person and remote non-management workers. Among the Big Five, it joins the Association of HarperCollins Employees, members of Local 2110 of the UAW, which encompasses 180 staffers.
New York Foundation for the Arts Workers Move to Unionize
September 14, 2025 // Workers at the nonprofit New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) are moving to unionize through Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Never before in NYFA’s history have its workers led such an initiative. The nonprofit offers grants to artists and institutions, though it is even more well-known in the New York art world for the classifieds section of its website. Staff members there said they decided to push for unionization due to a lack of transparency, unfair wages, and unsustainable working conditions.
UAW Local 2110 Requests Abrams Unionization Vote
April 10, 2025 // UAW Local 2110, which bills itself as a union for “technical, office, and professional workers,” also represents employees at HarperCollins (the sole Big Five publisher to have a union), the New Press, and the Asian American Writers Workshop, as well as workers at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and Columbia University.
After walkout over wage dispute Friday, union workers at MASS MoCA say strike is possible
December 19, 2023 // On Friday, union workers at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts held a walkout calling for higher wages amid ongoing contract negotiations with the museum. Employees voted to unionize with UAW Local 2110 more than two years ago over complaints about working conditions, compensation, benefits, and more. While the union hammered out its first contract with MASS MoCA last December, the three-year agreement didn’t finalize a plan for wage increases for workers — leading to new rounds of negotiations this fall. Reached for comment by WAMC, the museum said that “we continue to carry forward both a spirit of optimism, and our commitment to bargaining as a mutual responsibility,” and that “MASS MoCA looks forward to continued negotiations, to maintain, in good faith, the commitment of elevating our employees while sustaining MASS MoCA’s community and culture through our mission and work together.” Local 2110 representative Chelsea Farrell tells WAMC that a strike isn’t off the table as talks continue.
ATTORNEYS AT CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ANNOUNCE UNIONIZATION
November 20, 2023 // If their union is recognized, the attorneys at the Center for Reproductive Rights will join more than 2,700 members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) – UAW Local 2325. ALAA – UAW Local 2325 is a union for legal and social service workers, including attorneys, paralegals, social workers, investigators, receptionists, interpreters, advocates, administrative staff, and counselors with chapters at 25+ non-profits in the NYC metropolitan area. The Union represents members at public defender and public interest legal organizations such as the Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Neighborhood Defender Service, Queens Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, as well as advocates for the indigent at non-profit social services organizations such as VOCAL-NY and New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE). The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys is the oldest union of attorneys, legal services, and advocates for the indigent in the United States.