Fall 2008 - The 30 people who share the title, 'Educator' at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum have been considering the formation of a Union for several years. They are the part-time and per diem workers who are the 'Tour Guides'. Over the past few years, the popularity of the Tenement Museum has risen and the quality of the tours provided by the Educators each day has been cited by many tourists as, 'Excellent!' In this same period of time, many of the Educators have seen their colleagues fired with no notice, no recourse and no termination or severance pay. The Educators are interested in unionizing yet their efforts to do so are being blocked by the administrators of the Museum. The administrators do not want to give their Educators these benefits: guaranteed hours, vacation time, sick leave, health care and due process prior to termination. Museum management repeatedly has said it only will recognize a union that includes both full-time and part-time employees. Full-time workers, so far, haven’t organized.