Glenstone museum workers form union after contentious campaign

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The election followed weeks of campaigning and pressure between hourly workers and the founders of the private art institution.

Glenstone's campus in Potomac, Md., mingles postwar art and nature across nearly 300 acres. Employees at Glenstone, the private contemporary art museum in Potomac, Md., voted on Thursday and Friday to form a union with the Teamsters for hourly workers.Style is where The Washington Post covers happenings on the front lines of culture and what it all means, including the arts, media, social trends, politics and yes, fashion, all told with personality and deep reporting.

Among peer institutions that have seen successful labor drives, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Guggenheim Museum in New York, Glenstone is a relative newcomer. The museum opened in 2006 as a private center for the art collection of the Raleses, who live across a pond from the museum’s galleries.

 

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