[ Workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota have voted
overwhelmingly to join together in a union with the AFSCME Council 5.]
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SCIENCE MUSEUM WORKERS VOTE TO UNIONIZE  
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Union Advocate
January 20, 2023
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_ Workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota have voted
overwhelmingly to join together in a union with the AFSCME Council 5.
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Workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota have voted to form a union.

Council 5 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Workers (AFSCME) announced the election results today. Museum workers
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election in
November, and the board tallied votes yesterday.

“Workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota have voted
overwhelmingly to join together in a union with the AFSCME Council 5
family, calling for dignity and respect for the work they
do,” Council 5 [[link removed]] Executive Director
Julie Bleyhl said. “In spite of a significant anti-union pressure
campaign [[link removed]] by Science Museum
of Minnesota management, these workers spoke decisively that they seek
a voice in the workplace, fair pay for a day’s work, dignified paid
leave policies, and more.”

About 250 Science Museum employees were eligible to participate in the
union election. The bargaining unit will bring together a wide range
of full-time, part-time and seasonal workers, including scientists,
researchers, lab technicians and accounting specialists.

formed unions in recent years
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Science Museum employees said they joined together, in part, to
increase their say in the organization.

“We want a seat at the table,” paleontologist Nicole Dzenowski
said during a rally last month in support of fellow AFSCME
members bargaining their first union contract with the Minnesota
Historical Society
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“Right now we have no ability to be a part of the decisions that
affect us.”

Bleyhl said Science Museum workers “will have the full support of
our union as they continue their momentum and fight for dignity and
respect as they negotiate a first contract with the Science Museum of
Minnesota that lifts everyone up.”

Council 5 represents over 43,000 workers, mostly in the public sector.
But the union has welcomed over 700 nonprofit workers into its ranks
in the last three years, supporting successful union drives at the
Walker Art Center, Regions Hospital, Cornerstone Advocacy Service and
the Historical Society.

AFSCME says it represents about 35,000 cultural workers nationwide
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* American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
Council 5
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