Field Museum employees seeking to unionize ask head of museum for recognition

Field Museum employees want to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. (Sun-Times file)

Field Museum employees seeking to unionize delivered a letter to the head of the museum Tuesday asking for voluntary recognition of their union.

A majority of the 330 employees who work in positions that would make up the proposed union have signed on to form a union, labor organizers said outside the museum Tuesday.