I wonder if the door to the fire-escape opens...

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This is perhaps a step too far and Too Much Realism for a museum experience that shows Life as it Useterbe: The Tenement Museum Organizes (I'd have liked to have visited it when I was in NYC in '17 but the opening times and days didn't work for me, as I recall - I'd scheduled it for my last day before going to the get my plane and then found it was a closed day.) [Y]ou’d think that an organization that exposes people to the reality of sweatshops would treat their own workers differently. But you would be wrong. And the workers have done what the people they interpret did-they have organized into a union.
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The workers report low wages, scarce benefits, and unstable working conditions. These inadequate conditions, the organizers say, are unfitting of a museum that was founded to celebrate the labor struggles of immigrant families.

Take it away, Canned Heat:

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