FRIEZE ART FAIR TO USE UNION LABOR

Frieze New York will be using partial union labor at its upcoming fair this May at Randall’s Island, and will employ only union workers beginning with its 2015 edition, reports GalleristNY’s Zoë Lescaze. The news concludes an ongoing dispute between the fair’s organizers and employees that at one point led activists (on behalf of the Teamsters, the New York District Council of Carpenters and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and others) to stage an inflatable rat outside the fair last May. Calling the outcome of the latest negotiations “a great win,” George Miranda, president of the Teamsters Joint Council 16 and leader of the talks, said: “We’re satisfied with it. Our goal all along was to make sure it was 100 percent union labor, and that’s what we accomplished.”