Inside the organization that’s trying to finally unionize architecture

After a failed union vote at the famed architecture firm Snøhetta, Architectural Workers United is doubling down on helping overworked and underpaid designers speak up for themselves.

The highest profile effort to unionize the architecture industry has just failed. On Friday, votes were tallied on a unionization petition at the Oslo- and New York-based architecture and design firm Snøhetta, and in a 35 to 29 vote, the 65 employees in its U.S. studios voted against what would have been the architecture industry’s second private sector union.

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