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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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Parade celebrates MoMA strike victory

Early in the morning of Sept. 9, at the end of a 15-hour negotiating session, leaders of Auto Workers Local 2110 announced that their four-and-a-half month strike against New York's Museum of Modern Art had ended in victory.

The union won an 18-percent wage increase over five years. And it won an agency shop. All new staff will automatically pay union dues.

Management also agreed to eventually rehire all the workers furloughed during the museum's renovation, which is about to begin.

Local 2110 made the museum bosses agree that any changes to the members' medical benefits would result in the same changes in the bosses' own health plan.

Later on Sept. 9, at the annual Labor Day Parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, many workers cheered the 250 fighting MoMA strikers. The New York Central Labor Council and many local unions had rallied behind the workers, bolstering picket lines and helping them win support from 150 prominent artists and City Council members.

—Anne Pruden

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