Brooklyn Museum Staff Association

Scope and Contents This artifical collection contains information on Brooklyn Museum staff events, activities, and demonstrations outside of work, or loosely related to work. It continues to expand and grow. Of special interest is the 1936 newsletter and press release that were created by the Communist Party Unit of the Brooklyn Museum which advocated for the Museum to pay for guards uniforms, as well as for staff to join anti-war and anti-fascist organizations. The newsletter was called Museum...

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Includes 1 folder of draft bylaws.

Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1971 a group of Brooklyn Museum employees met to discuss creating an internal organization to help employees and to address concerns by the professional and clerical staff that was not within the DC 37 union. This is within the context of MoMA organizing PASTA (MoMA Union) also in 1971, and in repsonse to major budget cuts from local government funding. The Brooklyn Museum employees organized the Brooklyn Museum Professional and Clerical Staff Association and began holding regular...

Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1971 a group of Brooklyn Museum employees met to discuss creating an internal organization to help employees and to address concerns by the professional and clerical staff that was not within the DC 37 union. This is within the context of MoMA organizing PASTA (MoMA Union) also in 1971, and in repsonse to major budget cuts from local government funding. The Brooklyn Museum employees organized the Brooklyn Museum Professional and Clerical Staff Association and began holding regular...

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Includes 19 slides of the strike.

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In order to promote communication and clarity between staff and administration, newsletters were published for all members of staff.