The dozens of Sesame Workshop employees who gathered in a small park near Lincoln Center Tuesday morning could hardly contain their excitement. Moments before the 10:30 gathering, 60 workers at the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street” had delivered a letter to management asking them to recognize their nascent union.
The delivery to CEO Sherrie Westin was the culmination of 18 months of organizing more than 210 workers into a bargaining unit within Local 153 of the Office and Professional Employees International Union. Afterwards, employees jovially headed to the park to listen to speeches from coworkers, sing classic “Sesame Street” songs and dance to celebrate their first major step as a union.
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