June 21, 2006 More
than 50 members of Local 535 at the AGO held an information picket
outside the gallery to greet members of the AGO Board of Trustees
before the gallery's Annual General Meeting. Members handed out
more than 600 leaflets to gallery visitors and asked them to
contact AGO Director & CEO Mattew Teitelbaum and President
Charles Baillie to urge them to negotiate a fair contract with
gallery employees. With just eight days to the June 29 strike
deadline, chants on the picket line included "Hey hey, ho ho,
There could be a strike at the AGO." Another popular chant was "No
Contract, No Warhol," referring to the disruption a strike would
cause to the gallery's major Andy Warhol exhibition, currently
scheduled to open on July 8.
