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Unionization in the US Museums
It seems like the Brooklyn Museum might be the next there, certainly in a negotiation that seems pretty tense. The majority of museum funding comes from extremely wealthy people who are on boards of trustees and acquisition committees. And so you've seen many museums in the US hire law firms and negotiation teams that are specialized in union busting. So there's a very kind of direct application of a kind of corporate governance model to the way that a lot of US museums are run.
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