PMA Union staff visited the expanded galleries earlier this month
One year ago this week, staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art launched a labour campaign that resulted a few months later in the first-ever wall-to-wall labour union in a major US museum, a move that has since been taken up by workers at several otherinstitutions, including most recently the Whitney Museum in New York. From its inception, the PMA Union has aimed to represent employees across all departments, from visitor services and retail to conservation and curatorial. That remains among its hardest-won accomplishments.
“The biggest success has been just developing our membership in the union, and creating really good communication channels. It has not been easy we are like a lot of larger museums, pretty siloed into departments and divisions and subdivisions and subdepartments,” says Nicole Cook, a programme manager for graduate academic partnerships at the museum. This was further comp
Add the town of Dunkirk as the latest municipality to have proposed solar projects.
During this week’s Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency’s meeting, board members heard about two new proposed solar projects, one at 3751 William St. East and the other at 10653 Brigham Road. Both projects have been proposed by Solar Liberty of Buffalo.
Solar Liberty was approved for a Payment In Lieu Of Taxes for two solar projects in Ashville earlier in the meeting. Company President Adam Rizzo said they’re proud of what they’re doing. “Being based here in Western New York, we’re very excited to bring the benefits of solar to our local community. I know there’s been a lot of development in Central New York and closer to New York City. We’re very happy to be bringing these benefits to our local communities here,” he said.
Add the town of Dunkirk as the latest municipality to have proposed solar projects.
During last week’s Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency’s meeting, board members heard about two new proposed solar projects, one at 3751 William St. East and the other at 10653 Brigham Road. Both projects have been proposed by Solar Liberty of Buffalo.
Solar Liberty was approved for a Payment In Lieu Of Taxes for two solar projects in Ashville earlier in the meeting. Company President Adam Rizzo said they’re proud of what they’re doing. “Being based here in Western New York, we’re very excited to bring the benefits of solar to our local community. I know there’s been a lot of development in Central New York and closer to New York City. We’re very happy to be bringing these benefits to our local communities here,” he said.
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ASHVILLE Two smaller solar projects have been given financial approval to be built in the town of Harmony.
During this week’s Chautauqua County Industrial Development meeting, board members voted in favor of the Ashville solar array projects. One is 5 megawatts and the other 3.75 megawatts, on approximately 33 acres of land in the town of Harmony. Construction cost will be about $12.4 million. The address for the development is 1606 Blockville Watts Flats Road, Ashville.
“We’ve worked very closely with the town supervisor (of Harmony) who very much is in favor of this. They’re excited about what this brings to the landowner and what this brings to the town,” said Richard Dixon, chief financial officer for the county IDA.
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