Teamster – Arts & Labor [ARCHIVE] https://artsandlabor.org Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:13:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 Arts & Labor and Unions to Speak Out at Panel with Suzanne Lacy and Nato Thompson [ARCHIVE] https://artsandlabor.org/arts-labor-and-unions-to-speak-out-at-panel-with-suzanne-lacy-and-nato-thompson/ https://artsandlabor.org/arts-labor-and-unions-to-speak-out-at-panel-with-suzanne-lacy-and-nato-thompson/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 13:03:24 +0000 http://artsandlabor.org/?p=1210 Continue reading →]]> Rat in the Machine: Frieze NY Art FairArts & Labor and members of the Teamsters Joint Board 16 will read a statement of support for the labor struggle that is happening at the Frieze NY “Rat” Fair at the panel conversation between Suzanne Lacy and Nato Thompson at Frieze on Friday, May 10, at 4 PM. 

Join us and stand up for art worker rights—from the studio, to the office, to the building site!

HOW TO GET TO THE FRIEZE RAT FAIR

]]> https://artsandlabor.org/arts-labor-and-unions-to-speak-out-at-panel-with-suzanne-lacy-and-nato-thompson/feed/ 1 Letters to Artists, Panelists, and Galleries Participating in the Frieze NY Art Fair [ARCHIVE] https://artsandlabor.org/letters-to-artists-panelists-and-galleries-participating-in-the-frieze-ny-art-fair/ https://artsandlabor.org/letters-to-artists-panelists-and-galleries-participating-in-the-frieze-ny-art-fair/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 17:44:56 +0000 http://artsandlabor.org/?p=1196 Arts & Labor is distributing the following letters to artists, panelists, and galleries participating in the Frieze New York art fair. Help us spread the word!

• Letter to panelists
• Letter to artists, gallerists, fair workers, and attendees

]]> https://artsandlabor.org/letters-to-artists-panelists-and-galleries-participating-in-the-frieze-ny-art-fair/feed/ 3 Facts About the Frieze NY “Rat” Fair [ARCHIVE] https://artsandlabor.org/facts-onfrieze/ https://artsandlabor.org/facts-onfrieze/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 13:14:19 +0000 http://artsandlabor.org/?p=1215 Continue reading →]]> Print Out Flyers with these facts and hand them out at the Frieze NY Rat Fair! (quarter sheets)

• Frieze is a for-profit event that pays less than $1/ sq ft to lease city park land for two months.

• Frieze makes art inaccessible to many working New Yorkers with a ticket price of $42 per person.

• Frieze would rather bring in low-wage, non-union labor from WI, than pay NYers a living wage.

• Frieze is the only major NYC art fair using non-union labor to construct its fair.

TELL FRIEZE TO HIRE LOCAL & UNION!

Call the Frieze Office: 212 463 7488
Twitter: #FNY13 #FriezeRatFair @FriezeNewYork
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]]> https://artsandlabor.org/facts-onfrieze/feed/ 2 NYC Labor Leaders Demand that Frieze NY Art Fair Hire Local and Union [ARCHIVE] https://artsandlabor.org/frieze/ https://artsandlabor.org/frieze/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:35:22 +0000 http://artsandlabor.org/?p=1174 Continue reading →]]> Arts & Labor supports Teamsters Joint Council 16, IATSE Local 829, IATSE Local 1 and District Council 9 of Painters in their demand for hiring local and union labor at Freize Art Fair as well as new permits that evaluate major profit events in NYC public parks.
CALL TO FREEZE FRIEZE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16, 2013   
Contact: Michael McKeon
(212) 681-1380

LABOR LEADERS TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIEZE NEW YORK ART FAIR AND CALL UPON ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CHANGE PARKS PERMITTING

Elected officials will join members of Teamsters Joint Council 16, IATSE Local 829, IATSE Local 1 and District Council 9 of Painters, at a press conference on the steps of City Hall Wednesday at 1:00 PM to confront the organizers of the Frieze New York Art show and their local events coordinator, Production Glue, LLC on their continuing discrimination against hiring New York City’s union workers.

Labor leaders contend that Frieze NY and Production Glue refuse to hire professional exhibition workers and hire workers from as far away as Wisconsin to avoid paying a fair wage. Art world enthusiasts speculate that London based Frieze will become a permanent yearly fixture at Randall’s Island. Production Glue also ran the event in 2012 and refused to employ union workers to construct the fairgrounds and facilitate the event.

These unions will demand that Frieze Art Fair end its practice of freezing out New York workers, and engage good, local, union employers effective immediately. They will also call upon the New York City Parks Department to pursue a new permitting process that evaluates labor standards for these major private events that make major profits while displacing families from enjoying local parks.

Frieze New York, which will run on Randall’s Island May 10-13, 2013, is an international contemporary art fair and will feature works from more than 1,000 artists from around the world.

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda, NYC Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez, Councilmember Jessica Lappin, Exhibition Employees Union Local 829 President Kenny Kerrigan, IATSE and members of several local unions will speak out on this lack of support and call for Frieze New York’s sponsors to acknowledge the rights of New York City’s union workers.

When:            Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:00 P.M.
Where:           Steps of City Hall, City Hall Park Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Who:              Labor Leaders and Elected Officials

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