Top Tweets for #MuseumLayoffs
Does anyone know what happened to @AMTransparency? The twitter account and site tracking #museumlayoffs is nowhere to be found...
#museumlayoffs have you re-evaluating your career?
Wondering if you should go independent? Or HOW to do it?
Check out the tips in Museum Mercenary: A Handbook for Independent Museum Professionals https://t.co/NQQkG5Xb6z
95% of CMA's unionized staff have been laid off. We've raised $6,750 in mutual aid and have been able to support and uplift each other thanks to our extended community. Our need is still great - help us reach $10,000! #museumlayoffs #unionstrong https://t.co/b2K1HzsqVt
99/ More #MuseumLayoffs, now @metmuseum: laying off 79, 93 more taking voluntary retirement, and new furloughs for 181. Brings total staffing to around 1600, down from 2000 in March. Article says POC are 48% of those affected, but 43% of total staff.
https://t.co/IWFvrhDE8A
98/ Philly #MuseumLayoffs: @philamuseum is laying off 85 staffers, adding to 42 voluntary separations. Total staff reduction is 127, around 23%.
Laid off are 56 pt, 29 ft; mostly in visitor services, education, and retail.
Union vote count is Thursday.
https://t.co/lsDC7RAhMp
97/ #Museumlayoffs at @mfaboston: laying off 57, and voluntary retirements for 56.
Looks like staff was around 750, so 15% reduction. MFA says August plan is to bring back 211 of the 300 staff furloughed since April.
https://t.co/PgDhxI3vY2
Let's start with the US. Most of the information I have comes from @AMTransparency, who are doing a huge and job of documenting #MuseumLayoffs. They've been tracking since March, and the thread is at nearly 100 posts. https://t.co/NF5VpzkBMD
This will be a thread for tracking museum layoff news. Not interested in doom-posting, but this info seems imp to track so we can all see which staff are hit hardest, which leaders take pay cuts, who’s being transparent, etc.
Please send links / mute if you need. #museumlayoffs
96/ New York’s @tenementmuseum back in the news with another round of #museumlayoffs: 76 laid off in visitor-focused roles, including education (71 people, 92% of edu staff), retail, marketing, and visitor services. And says museum president’s pay cut 99%
https://t.co/Z2oJptwdzy
95/ More #MuseumLayoffs in the Twin Cities: @sciencemuseummn has announced layoffs for 158 staffers, about 40% of its workforce. As @TCMuseums noted, museum leaders are taking more significant paycuts than elsewhere: the director 75% cut and others 60%.
https://t.co/54HIWHsp2a
“Some say that museums could have done more to save people’s jobs, and that the latest wave of layoffs reveals fundamental flaws in the United States nonprofit model.”
Indeed, some do say that! Ty @sarahecascone @artnet for inviting us #MuseumLayoffs
https://t.co/T5KacsVhaM
Huge thank you to @KimJohnsonMP for your support and solidarity in tabling this motion! ✊🙏 #museumlayoffs #culturevscovid #crisisinculture
93/ @newmuseum #museumlayoffs include 18 ft & pt staff, for a 27% reduction in ft staff. Unionized staff @newmuseum_union say “the Museum continues to offload the brunt of the financial impact onto its lowest-paid employees” and that museum refused dialogue for solutions.
92/ New reporting from @hyperallergic on the #museumlayoffs at @newmuseum and @brooklynmuseum. Brooklyn Museum has reduced staff by 7%, laying off 26 ft and 3 pt staff. Recieved $4.5m PPP. New Museum...
https://t.co/XWMazX0GsQ
Here we go again! @brooklynmuseum announced layoffs and BIPOC employees were greatly affected while high paid white execs and curatorial staff remain untouched. The museum portrays itself as a safe space for BIPOC,… https://t.co/rFBCipJ1Hk
Even the mannequins aren't surviving the #MuseumLayoffs
Today we honor the life long service of this mannequin. You have frightened many visitors in your decades of service. Enjoy your retirement, sir.
90/ Reporting this week on earlier #museumlayoffs at @MuseumofCityNY. Around 20 out of 100 ft staff laid off. Pt workers reduced hours or furloughed. Execs pay cut 25-35%. Recieved PPP. Reopening planned for July 23.
https://t.co/jbkxFPO1XH
Friends and colleagues affected by #MuseumLayoffs: do you write/think/teach about science and gender? Pitch @ladyxscience! I have a feeling a lot of you have stuff that would be great for us. We pay & we're currently looking for features. https://t.co/9MP6JJ7e0B
Friends and colleagues affected by #MuseumLayoffs: do you write/think/teach about science and gender? Pitch @ladyxscience! I have a feeling a lot of you have stuff that would be great for us. We pay & we're currently looking for features. https://t.co/9MP6JJ7e0B
89/ @artinstitutechi #Museumlayoffs : Art Institute lays off 51 ft staff from across depts, a week after staff organized to avoid layoffs: “Several of those who signed the letter, which also offers alternatives to layoffs, have since been laid off. “
https://t.co/zgqtjyKk5c
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