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Museums in the US have spent billions of dollars on expanding their buildings, but consistently failed to address low wages – and workers are now starting to unionise, writes Jillian Steinhauer.

In 2016, The Art Newspaper found that US museums had spent almost $5bn on expansions over the course of seven years while “in a state of constant growth”. Today that trend seems to hold steady: museums continue to expand, raising and spending huge sums of money in the process. But the past year has also seen the rise of a different but related phenomenon: a wave of labour organising and contract disputes at some of those same institutions. For workers, it seems, the high-flying expenditures... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper