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What a year. Remember when we were just one chapter of unionized Philly cultural workers, PMA Union? With last week’s victory at Historical Society of Pennsylvania, we are SEVEN! Congratulations to everyone organizing with us, within our organizations and out in our communities, on what you’ve built.

2025 really was a year of non-stop organizing! We negotiated and won strong second contracts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Penn Museum . . . enforced our first contract at Please Touch Museum . . . grew from four to seven chapters with overwhelming union victories at Fabric Workshop & Museum, Independence Seaport Museum, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania . . . built power with Philly union siblings in the Coalition of Workers at Penn, @phillyaflcio and @afscmedc47 . . . continued negotiating a first contract at the Schulykill Center for Environmental Education . . . and started first contract negotiations at Fabric Workshop and Independence Seaport Museum . . . so what will we do in 2026? Can’t wait to find out with all you beautiful people : )

What a year. Remember when we were just one chapter of unionized Philly cultural workers, PMA Union? With last week’s victory at Historical Society of Pennsylvania, we are SEVEN! Congratulations to everyone organizing with us, within our organizations and out in our communities, on what you’ve built.

2025 really was a year of non-stop organizing! We negotiated and won strong second contracts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Penn Museum . . . enforced our first contract at Please Touch Museum . . . grew from four to seven chapters with overwhelming union victories at Fabric Workshop & Museum, Independence Seaport Museum, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania . . . built power with Philly union siblings in the Coalition of Workers at Penn, @phillyaflcio and @afscmedc47 . . . continued negotiating a first contract at the Schulykill Center for Environmental Education . . . and started first contract negotiations at Fabric Workshop and Independence Seaport Museum . . . so what will we do in 2026? Can’t wait to find out with all you beautiful people : )

Union members @fabricworkshop welcome @atelier.fas workers to Philly Cultural Workers United! Philly arts workers are stronger together 💪

PMA Art Handlers welcome @atelier.fas workers to our union Philly Cultural Workers United!! Stronger together 💪

Hotel workers at the Phillly Sheraton Downtown—the city’s 2nd largest hotel—have been working without a contract for more than 2 yrs. With the World Cup and America’s 250th celebration approaching, hotel workers with UNITE HERE Local 274 are threatening to strike in order to secure their contract. What are they asking for? Basic respect, fair wages and benefits, and “humane” staffing levels. On May Day, we stopped by the Sheraton to show our support. Join us in supporting UNITE HERE and the Sheraton workers in their fight for basic respect and fair compensation. Philly is a UNION TOWN ✊ #worldcup2026 #america250 #union #philly #mayday

Just call us Case Number 04-RC-386470 😎

Today, workers at Atelier Fine Art Services announced they are forming a union and joining us in Philly Cultural Workers United - AFSCME District Council 47 Local 397. Atelier employees are highly skilled & trusted to pack, crate, transport, store, and install priceless works of art in museums & galleries across Philadelphia and nationwide. Staff in Philly museums frequently work with Atelier workers. We are thrilled to welcome them as union siblings & the eighth chapter of our Local!

Today, workers at Atelier Fine Art Services announced they are forming a union and joining us in Philly Cultural Workers United - AFSCME District Council 47 Local 397. Atelier employees are highly skilled & trusted to pack, crate, transport, store, and install priceless works of art in museums & galleries across Philadelphia and nationwide. Staff in Philly museums frequently work with Atelier workers. We are thrilled to welcome them as union siblings & the eighth chapter of our Local!

Today, workers at Atelier Fine Art Services announced they are forming a union and joining us in Philly Cultural Workers United - AFSCME District Council 47 Local 397. Atelier employees are highly skilled & trusted to pack, crate, transport, store, and install priceless works of art in museums & galleries across Philadelphia and nationwide. Staff in Philly museums frequently work with Atelier workers. We are thrilled to welcome them as union siblings & the eighth chapter of our Local!

On May Day—and every day—Philly is a union town. Thanks for joining us to march for our vision of a Working People’s Philadelphia. Solidarity forever ✊#union #philly #mayday #internationalworkersday

💪 💪 “Thousands took to the streets of Center City tonight for May Day — shining a light on labor unions and calling for stronger workers’ rights.” @6abcactionnews
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#philly #union

Happy May Day Philly, come down to City Hall now!! @phillyaflcio

Icymi this week Penn released its “merit pay” instructions for 2026-2027. Tired of all the mystery around pay and raises at Penn? We’re proud to support the Coalition of Workers at Penn’s fight for pay transparency and pay equity! Check out bit.ly/pennpaysurvey and join the coalition at bit.ly/pennworkers

We joined dozens of other orgs, representing hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians, to draft a Working People’s Vision for Philadelphia,
based on our shared values of Joy, Community, Solidarity, Integrity, Trust, and Love. To hear more, meet us tomorrow, May 1, May Day, at 4pm

DC47 Meetup spot: Thomas Paine Plaza, across the street from the N side of City Hall, next to the MSB#union #philly #mayday #internationalworkersday

☮️DC47 Against the War in Iran Resolution- link: http://m.afsc.me/27n

Whereas on Saturday, February 28, President Trump oversaw military strikes in Iran alongside the state of Israel, which most prominently hit a girls’ school, killing at least 175 people, mostly children; and

Whereas both the US and Israel have carried out attacks on civilians in the weeks since, resulting in over a thousand Iranians killed, tens of thousands injured, and ten million residents of Tehran subjected to chemical fallout from a US strike on an oil refinery; and

Whereas this war of aggression violates domestic and international law, specifically the separation clause outlined in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the principle of UN Charter Article 2 Section 4, and the judgment of the International Military Tribunal of the Nuremberg Trials; and

Whereas the horrific bombing of Iran comes alongside continued U.S. war on Venezuela, siege against Cuba, U.S. backed attacks in Palestine and Lebanon, and devastating ICE attacks on our communities across the country; and

Whereas it is the same drive for profit and power by the billionaire class that fuels war, ICE kidnappings and killings, and our exploitation at work and in our lives; and

Whereas wars waged by politicians influenced by billionaire interests remain deeply unpopular among voters despite decades of Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism mainstreamed through US media and civil society; and

Whereas workers in the US overwhelmingly demand their government focuses on meeting society’s basic needs, including programs that our members run at health centers, universities, and in the public sector, rather than spending trillions to wage war on workers here and abroad; and

Whereas workers all over the globe are struggling under undemocratic systems led by elites more concerned with maintaining power than building just, ethical, and life-sustaining systems that allow all people to thrive; and…

continue reading at: http://m.afsc.me/27n

#philly #union @afscme #iran