FAQ

Reunion for Meow Wolf was created by a group of Meow Wolf employees who are members of the bargaining unit and who long for another approach to making our workplace more just and equitable-- one that can fully include the voices of all employees, not just members of the bargaining unit.

Due to the unionization process, Meow Wolf leadership and management cannot state their position on this matter, aside from generally supporting our right to organize as employees. Based on the upward trend of positive actions from Meow Wolf leadership in recent months (hiring a new CPO, bringing on Sweet Livity, holding more listening sessions, working to bring back resource groups, etc.) we believe that they would be more receptive to this kind of collaboration than to a union, but that's just our sense of things and is in no way an official position.

The union election will take place on October 19th and will be held via an online ballot.

The bargaining unit consists of 130 members of Meow Wolf, which is about half of the company. This excludes all managers, people who make large budgetary decisions, the entire HR and IT departments, Creative Directors, all of our Vegas and Denver colleagues, and many others. We feel that this is not a fair representation of the voice of Meow Wolf.

One of the major risks to organizing internally is that it does not offer the same legal protections, outside resources, and bargaining power as organizing with a union. With a union there is a set structure that a new local can build off of, your dues will pay for legal support and a strike fund if that's ever needed, you can have the support of a network of other unions, etc.

While we understand that Meow Wolf hasn't always been responsive to the requests of workers in the past, we believe that this comes from being a young and inexperienced company, not from any sort of maliciousness. We believe that the company is finally growing up and that leadership has been consistently increasing their accountability and ability to listen and respond to our requests.

We further believe that the risks carried by forming a union (decreased investment, decreased profit, decreased freedom of choice leading to loss of talent, increased red tape in decision making, increased division within the company, etc.) are far greater than the risks of organizing internally and want to see these problems solved as a true collective.

From the Part 9 of the CWA Union Operating Procedures Manual "As a result of action taken at the 1990 Convention, the minimum dues were increased to 2 ¼ hours effective January 1991. This additional ¼ hour is used to finance the Members’ Relief Fund. For those units not able to strike, a 50 cents per member, per month, contribution is still required per the Constitution change in 2013."

2.25 hours in a 160 hour month equates to 1.41% of your monthly paycheck. If you were making $40,000/year, you would pay $564 annually. If you were making $60,000/year, you would pay $846 annually.

From Bloomberg Law's Daily Labor Report: "The average union worker saw their wages rise 3.3% in the first year of a newly negotiated collective bargaining agreement in 2019." (You can see data from the report here.) If you pair a 3.3% average pay increase with a 1.4% dues payment, you're looking at a total pay increase of 1.9%, which is lower than the average annual inflation rate of 3.15%.

Yes, we are! In 2017, Meow Wolf became a certified B Corp on our first try--the only certified B Corp in the entertainment industry. According to the B Corp website, "Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corps are accelerating a global culture shift to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustainable economy."

This means that Meow Wolf has taken a very public stance in the way we want to do work in the world. When recertification occurs every 3 years, Meow Wolf's scores in categories such as Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers will be publicly available on the B Corp website, helping hold the company accountable to its mission. Reunion for Meow Wolf would like to see us leverage the work already being done within the company by our B Corp team to help all workers better understand our score in the Workers category and improve it.

According to the 2018 US Census, the median household income was $56,262 and the median per capita (or per person) income was $35,935.