Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers?
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This week, as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown hit museums, we\\u2019re seeing unprecedented layoffs on both sides of the Atlantic. We ask: are museums doing all they can to save their staff? We look at the latest developments in the UK and US, where hundreds of museum workers are losing their jobs.
Our museums editor, Hannah McGivern sets the scene in the US and Europe, our senior editor Margaret Carrigan speaks to Dana Kopel, the New Museum Union\\u2019s unit chair, and Frankie Altamura, one of the union\\u2019s stewards, both of whom lost their jobs at the museum this week, about the growing movement for museum workers\\u2019 rights across the US and whether institutions can care for their workers. And we speak to Steven Warwick of the Public and Commercial Services union about the effect of the job cuts in UK museums on his members.
This week\\u2019s Work of the Week is chosen by Emily Butler, a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, about Rhea Storr\\u2019s film Junkanoo Talk (2017). You can see the full film here.
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