More than 600 adjunct professors and lecturers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will become part of the school’s union following a Tuesday vote, doubling the size of the city’s first major museum union.
The Art Institute of Chicago Workers United already represents about 600 staff members at both the museum and its affiliated school. The union is represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which also represents unionized museum workers at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
According to AFSCME Council 31, adjunct professors and lecturers voted 377-33 to unionize.
