PHILADELPHIA—Museum guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have voted to form an independent labor union in a 68-to-55 vote. The decision ends a fight that union organizers had waged for the previous two years with the guards’ employer, AlliedBarton.

“We hope that AlliedBarton will now work with us to agree on a fair contract in a reasonable amount of time,” Fabricio Rodriguez, the executive director of Jobs with Justice, a labor group in Philadelphia aligned with the union organizers, told the Weekly Press.

Some guards had earlier accused officials at the museum of intimidating union supporters, though museum staff have denied the charges. The security guards at the museum previously had a union, though it was dissolved when Mayor Ed Rendell, now governor of Pennsylvania, privatized the jobs in 1992.

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