Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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The union will be part of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents 10,000 workers at 91 museums nationwide and more than 25,000 library workers at 275 public and private libraries, including the Chicago Public Library.
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When you work for a Super-Woke organization such as AIC, then you feel need for a union to protect your employment rights. Let’ face it, AIC fired free labor, its well-educated and well-qualified docent volunteers. Such craziness would scare any non-profit employee. That said, union will collect its union dues, and quality of workplace performance will quickly decline as AIC union-employees decide they’re invincible, like CTU teachers.
The Art Institute has been around for over a century. What working conditions changed in the past few years that made workers suddenly realize they had to join a union? Has there been a wage freeze? Current management mistreating employees? Why now?
Job security in light of the nutjob running the place. The crazy person running the place got rid of the docents and is replacing them with her own paid BIPOC crew. At least with a union, there will be some level of job protection as the nutjob tries to remake the entire institution with her own disgusting and progressive (aka communist) agenda.
The current hosts saw what happened to the docents and some shop steward slug convinced them they should unionize. I thing they should join CTU as they’re equivalent to Educators. The Art Institute blew their foot off and wonder why they need a new shoe