Obituary: George H. Meyers II
SCARBOROUGH - George H. Meyers II of Cape Elizabeth passed away on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 at the age of 80. .
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SCARBOROUGH – George H. Meyers II of Cape Elizabeth passed away on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 at the age of 80.
George was born in Lynn, Mass. on May 24, 1940, the only child of George and Doris (Bessette) Meyers. He attended high school in Framingham, Mass. and went on to receive a degree from Boston College. He served as an officer in the Air Force, serving in Vietnam. He worked for Honeywell as a project manager for over 20 years, retiring to Cape Elizabeth.
December 16, 2020
Despite the challenging environment of 2020, museum workers have scored a series of organizing victories. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizers to adjust their efforts and try new approaches to bringing workers together. The series of successes serve as examples that other organizing drives can learn from and help more working people have a voice on the job.
Here are the recent museum organizing wins:
Carnegie Museum Workers in Pittsburgh Vote Overwhelmingly to Join USW: Workers at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, started organizing in order to win better pay and benefits, inclusivity in hiring, increased transparency, a safer workplace and other goals. The 500 workers successfully voted to form the United Museum Workers. The scientists, educators, art handlers, administrative staff, gift shop clerks, ushers and other workers are employed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Science Center a
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
by Ethan Andrews
select Tobias Czudej holds his phone with images of âsaltwaterfarmâ in front of the destroyed sculpture.
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3 An early December wind storm not the last one, but the one before predictably broke tree limbs, knocked out power and so forth. It also toppled a monolithic sculpture of 5,264 plastic egg cartons built by Brooklyn-based artist Carlos Reyes in a Quonset hut on a back road in Searsport.
The piece, titled “saltwaterfarm,” was the centerpiece of the third iteration of Waldo, a nonprofit art residency and exhibition program founded by Tobias Czudej in 2018 as a vehicle for experimental exhibitions of new artworks.