Dozens of NYC Elected Officials Congratulate Met Museum Workers on Unionizing With Local 2110 in Advance of January Vote
December 19, 2025
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Mamdani, Levine, Menin and Dozens of Other Elected Officials Congratulate Met Museum Workers on Unionizing With UAW 2110 in Advance of January Vote
New York, NY—This fall, workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art filed with the NLRB to join UAW Local 2110. The 900 workers will vote to join the union on January 13 and 15, making this New York City's largest new union election in 2026 right at the beginning of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s term.
On Friday, December 19, Mayor-elect Mamdani, Comptroller-elect Mark Levine, and presumptive Speaker-elect Julie Menin along with dozens of municipal and state officials located in New York City signed a letter led by UAW Region 9A in support of the Met Museum workers’ unionization efforts. The letter states: “These workers, coming together to fight for better wages, healthcare, and job security fulfills the ethos of what we mean when we say, ‘New York is a Union Town.’”
The museum workers at the Met would join the thousands of UAW Local 2110 workers at museums in New York including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Bronx Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum, the Tenement Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Noguchi Museum.
”It’s great to know that New York leaders are backing the unionization of museum workers,” said Jonathan Farbowitz, who works in Photo Conservation at The Met and also previously worked at the Guggenheim. “I was excited to see representatives from my own district sign onto the letter.”
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