California Academy of Sciences workers near union vote following pandemic-era insecurity

by Zack Haber, Bay City News June 13, 2023June 14, 2023

Visitors line up outside the entrance to the California Academy of Sciences on a rainy Dec. 26, 2012. Workers at the San Francisco museum are trying to form a union to improve working conditions following pandemic-era layoffs and furloughs that organizers believe were handled unfairly. (Roberto Bolaños/Flickr, CC BY)

Workers at the California Academy of Sciences, the 170-year old museum and research institute in San Francisco, have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election on union representation.

If a majority of the over 360 eligible staffers vote to approve, they will form CalAcademy Workers United as an affiliate of Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

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