“This agreement for a card check with Meow Wolf was a night and day difference from what we saw in Santa Fe and should be an example for all employers who want to do right by their workers,” said Milagro Padilla, a CWA spokesman. The union also commended the company’s response and said it looked forward to future contract talks. Every road’s gonna have its bumps, you know? But I feel like ours was a lot smoother because Santa Fe kinda set a precedent.” ” If they did not unionize, I feel like we would’ve had a lot harder struggle than we have had. “I think it shows how much Meow Wolf as a whole has grown since the Santa Fe union started,” Peterson said. That worry faded for many workers, though, after Monday’s voluntary recognition, said Patrick Peterson, a creative operator and union organizer. That effort lasted two years due to resistance from the company, a move which initially worried workers at the Denver location about their prospects for forming a union. The move makes it the second location of the arts behemoth to organize.ĭenver workers launched the effort last December, as union workers at Meow Wolf’s flagship Santa Fe exhibit were bargaining with company officials for their first contract.
“Meow Wolf fully did the right thing,” said Nina Moldawsky, a creative operator and union organizer who helped lead the push.
The process serves as an alternative to the more traditional process of forming a union through an election held by federal regulators. The company said it voluntarily recognized the new Denver union through a process called an authorization card check - where workers presented their union cards Monday to a third party, who confirmed they had a majority of workers signed on. The chapter - the Meow Wolf Workers Collective - will be made up of two bargaining units representing the museum’s security and operations staff separately. The union won a “super-majority” of support from roughly 200 workers to form a local chapter of the Communication Workers of America, according to a statement from CWA. Workers at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station exhibit in Denver have officially formed a union after voting in favor of the move Monday night.
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