Sotheby's Workers In Labor Dispute Confront Mayor's Girlfriend - NYTimes.com

Locked-Out Sotheby's Workers Confront Mayor's Girlfriend

Art handlers for Sotheby's, locked out of their jobs since August in an increasingly bitter union contract dispute with the auction house, have been both inventive and voluble in their protest tactics, traveling to London to picket auctions and even showing up at businesses owned by Sotheby's board members.

On Thursday night two of the art handlers interrupted a planning meeting attended by Diana L. Taylor, a Sotheby's board member and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's girlfriend, and demanded that she help end the lockout. Initially, Ms. Taylor seemed to ignore the interruption but then she leaned into her microphone and made her position known clearly, in stern tones.

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