Daily News | Workers at Philadelphia Museum of Art are on strike, museum is open
More than half the roughly 350 workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art went on strike Monday, throwing up picket lines at entrances to the main building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and at the entrances to the Perelman Building across Kelly Drive and at the Rodin Museum down the Parkway.Museum officials said the museum is open and running on its normal schedule staffed by managers and nonunion employees.
“After two years of negotiations, our membership cannot accept further stalling and union-busting,” said Local 397 president Adam Rizzo. There are about 180 art museum employees who are members of the union. In a statement outlining its latest bargaining position, the museum said it had offered workers “wage increases totaling 8.5% over the next 10 months and 11% by July 1, 2024″ and a “minimum annual salary for exempt employees that is more than 10% higher than the current lowest annual salary for these employees.”
In addition the museum said its latest offer included accelerated vacation accrual for hourly employees, a more flexible remote work schedule, and job security protections that ensure the museum will not use a temporary employee, term employee, subcontractor, or volunteer to lay off or furlough a current union staff member.
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