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"Last year saw record-breaking sales with profits over $100 million for Sotheby’s; the pay of the CEO alone doubled to $6 million. Yet Sotheby’s has sought to break organized labor by starving their workers into submission—locked out of their jobs and without wages since August, these workers and their families lost their health care benefits at the end of 2011."

File under “Wouldn’t it be great if it were true”:Whitney Biennial Breaks with Corporate Sponsors; Apologizes to Participating Artists

Too bad the quote itself is true.

— 1 year ago with 2 notes
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