Days after visitors services employees at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced they intended to form a union, they were told by management on Tuesday they would be laid off. “Effective Thursday, Nov. 7 we will be laying off all the Visitor Services Associates,” read the email. “This is an anti-union tactic and the workers at the Marciano are prepared to fight back,” she said. Maurice Marciano, left, founder of the Marciano Art Foundation, with curator Philipp Kaiser, in 2017. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Visitors services employees had announced on Friday that they intended to form a union with AFSCME over issues related to scheduling, family leave, job security and wages.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 06, 2019 04:53 UTC