BOSTON — Employees at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts validated their veryfirst labor offer Tuesday, endingupbeing the mostcurrent distinguished art organization to secure employees with a union agreement.
The cumulative bargaining arrangement is the veryfirst consideringthat museum employees voted to signupwith the United Auto Workers Local 2110 in November 2020, the union and management stated in a joint declaration.
“We are happy to have reached an contract on a union agreement with the MFA that will supply a more fair settlement structure and a democratic voice for the personnel,” union President Maida Rosenstein stated in the declaration. “By developing cumulative bargaining rights, the MFA personnel is assisting to bring about required systemic modification for museum employees in basic.”
The union represents 227 of the museum’s administrative, technical, curatorial and preservation staffmembers.
The contract raises salaries and minimum pay rates. Workers will get at least a 5% boost on July 1, with some employees getting bigger boosts. Wages will be increased onceagain by 3% on July 1, 2023, and onceagain by 3% on July 1, 2024.
The Museum hasactually approximated the overall expense of the modifications in salaries to be 13.5% ov