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Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize

November 10, 2025 #art, #art museum, #detroit, #Detroit Institute of Art, #Hyperallergic, #Labor Movement, #labor unions, #michigan, #Museum, #union workers, #unions, #Workers

Dozens of employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) have gone public with their cross-departmental push to unionize through AFSCME Cultural Workers United this week, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide. Under the title DIA Workers United, the group presented the museum with a letter requesting recognition of its union on Tuesday, November 4. {read}