By Doug Cunningham

The Tenement Museum on New York City’s lower east side celebrates the history of workers who formed unions. Ironically, the museum is refusing to recognize a union that its own employees have formed; employees who teach about that worker history.

Edan Shulz is an organizer with UAW Local 2110.

[Shulz]: “One of the tours that educators give every day is a tour that's about the garment industry at the turn of the century and the terrible working conditions that people endured and about the fact that people organized to better their working lives. And it is pretty ironic that their own employer is trying to push them away from a union that they want."

The workers are hoping the museum will see the light and voluntarily recognize the union because a majority of the workers have signed union cards.