# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ4rNZYj3UV
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-10T18:12:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

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Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) have gone public with their cross-departmental push to unionize through AFSCME Cultural Workers United, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.

Sarah Burger, one of the organizers for DIA Workers United who has worked at the museum as a preparator for 20 years, told Hyperallergic that serious conversations about unionizing started towards the end of 2024, and now “almost every single department within the museum is being represented at this point.”

“ I do think that people at the ‘top’ ought to be compensated well for those efforts, but the people at the ‘bottom’ are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” Burger continued. “ I personally have been priced out of two neighborhoods.”

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Detroit Institute of Arts Workers United (DIAWU) standing in solidarity outside of the DIA on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (photo courtesy DIAWU and AFSCME) 

#DetroitInstituteofArts #Union #Museums

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