Guggenheim layoffs latest fallout from cash crunch at city museums

Amid a budget crunch at cultural institutions citywide, management at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced Friday afternoon that they would lay off 20 workers. The layoffs, which affect members of United Auto Workers Local 2110, come three weeks after the Brooklyn Museum announced it would terminate nearly 50 employees, dozens of whom are Local 2110 and District Council 37 members. 

It’s unclear exactly how many of the 20 Guggenheim employees set to be laid off are represented by UAW Local 2110. Officials from the union did not respond to requests for comment. The local’s president, Olga Brudastova, told The New York Times that the union has filed a grievance over the layoffs because management did not provide the union with advance notice of the cuts.