{"id":183075,"date":"2026-04-02T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:06:08","slug":"transit-museum-staff-vote-to-unionize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183075\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Museum staff vote to unionize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2013 STAFF MEMBERS AT the New York Transit Museum last week unanimously voted to unionize, through District Council 37 AFSCME, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/nyc-transit\/transit-museum-workers-unionize-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">amNY reports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vote covers 30 employees who work for the nonprofit that runs the museum; staff in the museum\u2019s gift shop, who work for the MTA, unionized last year through the Transport Workers Union Local 100.<\/p>\n<p>Staff say they are seeking higher pay, job security and a greater voice in the museum\u2019s operations, and will now seek to negotiate a contract with management, which did not voluntarily recognize the union and has not yet responded to the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe general vibe is very positive at the museum right now, and we\u2019re looking forward to going into bargaining,\u201d organizer Ava Dennis told amNY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2013 STAFF MEMBERS AT the New York Transit Museum last week unanimously voted to unionize, through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3302,9,39558,11,10,3555],"class_list":{"0":"post-183075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city-transit-museum","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-unions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}