Why Would A Museum With A $1 Billion Endowment Cut Staff Health-Care Benefits? Inside The Ongoing MoMA Labor Dispute

“Management is saying that health-care costs are going up in the double digits. Management also said something really crazy; they told us, ‘You really like that health care,’ like, you use it, like, are we supposed to not use it? And they want us to share the burden; however MoMA’s endowment topped a billion dollars last month … We had the Matisse cutouts show this year, which was a blockbuster. The museum is doing better than it has ever done.”