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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 13h

If you've been following the Chronicle Heritage news and worried that you and your coworkers may be next, remember that it's always a good time to organize a union and take control of your working conditions! 🏺🪏

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hundreds of archaeologists 🏺across the country just lost their jobs with no notice, but did you know that companies are actually required by law to provide formal notice of mass layoffs at least 60 days in advance?

A square graphic with a light red and dark red sunburst background and 5 black silhouettes of people at the bottom of the image. Above them, in a starburst graphic, is the text "Know Your Rights During A Mass Layoff"

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Learn more about your rights under the WARN Act through the links in our bio and SPREAD THE WORD! 📣

Square graphic with a light/dark red pinwheel background. Text reads: The WARN Act is enforced through the U.S. District Courts. If you believe you have a claim under the WARN Act, consult with an attorney!*
Workers can file either individual or class action suits against employers that violate the WARN Act.
*Employers are generally responsible for paying legal fees if your suit is successful

Square graphic with a shovel test pit photo background and a text box in the center. Text reads: LEARN MORE.
You can find more information and guidance on your rights under the WARN Act on the Department of Labor website (URL)
Some states have additional laws that expand WARN Act protections. Find out what protections exist in your state here: (URL)

(Both websites available at link in bio!)

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chronicle Heritage may be leaving the industry, but we can't let them get away that easily! If your rights under the WARN Act were violated, you and your co-workers have a right to restitution!

Square graphic with a light/dark red pinwheel background with a text box in the center that reads "Under the Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, eligible employees must receive a written notice 60 days before the date of a mass layoff or plant closing. If your employer fails to provide proper advance notification of a mass layoff, you may be able to seek damages for back pay and benefits for up to 60 days of work."

Square graphic with faded background of an excavation photo. Text reads: Who Is Protected? The WARN Act protects both full-time and part-time employees at companies that employ >100 full-time employees. The WARN Act defines a full-time employee as someone who:
-works an average of 20 hours a week or more AND
-Has worked for an employer for more than 6 of the last 12 months

Even part-time workers are entitled to advance notice of a mass layoff!

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Nat Lyon @natlyon.com · 02/10/2026

As a former CRM field director- I always despised large regional/national firms that low balled contracts and took work away from local subject matter specialists that could actually approach their work as scholarship. There is not much new work out there due to Trump administration de-regulations.

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Curt @neoriffic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CRM is squarely at the intersection of Capitalism St. and Colonialism Ave. The archaeologists and the heritage they ostensibly protect are inherently susceptible to interests and legislation actively disincentivized from promoting sustainable and equitable treatment of workers and First Nations.🏺

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CT-9902 @mindorese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway this is what I was vagueposting about yesterday. If you’re not in the industry it’s hard to understand the scale, but that’s maybe HALF of the jobs in the industry just POOF not to mention the projects they’re just… abandoning?

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Jess 🫠 @jessness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hope they get raked for likely violating the WARN act in some of the states they have offices. Most of these employees didnt even get 24hr notice.

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Solidarity with all the workers who lost their jobs because of this ♥️🖤

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday one of the largest CRM employers in the country, Chronicle Heritage, announced that they are dissolving the company and immediately fired and recalled all of their deployed field crews with no notice or severance. Private equity is a disease 🏺🪏

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need to name and shame the cultural resource management company involved in this immediately 🏺🪏

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The calls and emails have been rolling in but the week's not done yet! 🏺🪏

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our week-long phone/email zap starts today! We need your help to pressure Goodwin & Associates to sign a fair contract! 🏺🪏

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Solidarity phone/email zap starts TOMORROW! 🏺

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's 2026, and they are STILL fighting for a fair contract! Here's how you can help!

Text on a faded photo background of an archaeologist monitoring a backhoe.

Header Text: How Can You Help?
Text: The union is STILL fighting for a fair contract! Let Goodwin and Associates know you stand in solidarity with the workers at their Maryland office and tell them to stay at the bargaining table, negotiate in good faith, and sign a fair contract.

Text on a dark/light red pinwheel background.
Header Text: What to say:
Text: "I'm [calling/emailing] to let Goodwin & Associates know that I stand in solidarity with union archaeologists at the Maryland office. The company should stay at the bargaining table, negotiate in good faith, and sign a fair contract”

Please keep all communication polite and civil!

Contact Information for the Maryland office of Goodwin & Associates
Phone: 301-694-0428
Email: frederick@rcgoodwin.com

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In June 2024, field archaeologists at the Maryland office of Goodwin & Associates voted to unionize with Teamsters and Allied Workers Local Union No. 992.

Text on a faded photo background of CRM fieldwork.
Text: Field Archaeologists and Field Directors at the Maryland office of Goodwin & Associates won their union election in June 2024. Goodwin & Associates accepted the election results, but before bargaining could even begin, management attempted to weaken the bargaining unit by unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment & firing a union member

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Text: In response, the union filed two Unfair Labor Practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board in August and October 2024, but the cases are still pending.
In the meantime, these changes have succeeded in forcing out members of the bargaining unit.
Of the 13 people who received ballots in 2024, only 3 were left by 2025.

Two footnotes include the ULP case numbers, 05-CA-348638 and 05-CA-353217

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Show solidarity with unionized archaeologists with a week-long phone/email zap starting Monday, September 21st!

Text on a square, dark/light red pinwheel background with a graphic of a fist holding a megaphone in the bottom left corner. The text reads:
Call for Solidarity!
Unionized archaeologists in Maryland need YOUR help!

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So a majority of #archaeology in the US is driven by Section 106. Most archaeologists work for the #Crm industry. This is also the mechanism by which 99% of preservation occurs in this country. It is about to go away.

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The attack on Chaco Canyon, the shrinking of Bears Ears, the gutting of Section 106 is all related. Erasing tangible places that hold our history is the ultimate erasure of the people connected to those places. When that history is forgotten the land is free for extraction.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The non-archaeological community needs to know the administration is gutting the law that preserves historical sites for the benefit of the nation, weakening the voices of tribes in the process. While it may be a fait accompli commenting will provide future lawsuits with material to fight back.

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Attention for field techs 🚨 Make sure you avoid REI's annual sale when you're stocking up for field season this year!! Solidarity with REI workers!

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Boosting for TDOV 🏳️‍⚧️ with a question for trans field archaeologists... How do you want to see companies protect you in these situations?

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

How are CRM 🏺 companies with projects in Idaho planning to protect their trans field staff?

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American Association for State and Local History @aaslh.org · 18/03/2026

History practitioners find deep meaning in their work—but they're also experiencing burnout and concerned about low pay. Learn more about the public history workforce: aaslh.org/history-work... Join us to discuss at our upcoming virtual summit: aaslh.org/workforce-su... #WorkforceWednesday

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

💯 I can think of multiple papers on gender and publishing trends in archaeology that just assumed gender based on the authors' first names and what they could glean from a quick google search, and thought that was sufficient to assign gender/identify any non-cis authors 😵‍💫😬

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

According to the article they grouped all trans and nonbinary respondents together due to low sample size (n=18) which is fair from a data analysis standpoint, but yeah it definitely leads to some wonky language in the discussion of summary data

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"Women, noncisgendered, & entry-level archaeologists are the most vulnerable to negative experiences, that the pressure to push beyond one’s limits is universal, and that discrimination and harassment are factors increasingly considered by women as they decide whether to continue in the profession."

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Does anyone know if Chronicle Heritage has crews/staff in Saudi Arabia right now??? 🏺

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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

In a recent Cambridge Core blog, Marie Matsuda and Sarah Simeonoff draw on experiences from archeological fieldwork to argue that these stories, “paint a picture of the culture of archaeology, in which field archeologists can feel isolated and unsafe.” Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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‘Are you tough enough?’: Rethinking the safety, culture and care of archaeologists in the field « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

From the old ‘Cowboys of Science’ adage to swashbuckling fictional characters like Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, the perception that fieldwork, and archaeology generally, is a job for tough people per...

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Many of these issues apply to the US CRM/HRM industry. As an aside, given these realities, it's unfortunate SFU has let their HRM MA program lapse. 🏺 theconversation.com/canada-has-t...

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Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences

Protecting heritage in Canada requires training more archeologists and equipping them with the tools and education to do so.

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 16/12/2025

Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to to stop development projects.

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Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show

As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to to stop development projects.

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 11/12/2025

Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia. www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...

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Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank

Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

TetraTech, an engineering consulting firm with extensive cultural resource management contracts across the U.S., has been awarded a contract to build an IDF-controlled settlement in Gaza...The entanglement between genocidal powers and the American CRM industry is a travesty 🏺

Screenshot of an Instagram post by @conflictwire. The post includes an aerial photo showing the areas of Israeli control in Gaza and the following text:
"On Nov. 11, US media reported that the Trump administration was preparing to implement a plan that would create "Alternate Safe Communities" in IDF-controlled areas of Gaza east of the Yellow Line, with a pilot site set to be built in Rafah, southern Gaza. Basic services would be provided as well as temporary housing for approximately 25,000 people, vetted by Israeli intelligence to filter out Hamas members. The US State Department awarded Tetra Tech with a contract to build the first settlement.

So what? This is consistent with Israel's efforts to undermine the Hamas movement as a governing body of the Gaza Strip by establishing parallel, competing structures and is in line with our previous assessment that Tel Aviv likely hopes to expand the influence of various anti-Hamas armed groups into Hamas-controlled territory and undermine its status as governing authority in a divided Gaza Strip. This new reporting shows it intends to push peo leave the unsafe areas towards ones under nominal IDF control being rebuilt.

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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Also, AECOM is heavily involved in cultural heritage projects around the globe. Their credibility as trustworthy partners in preserving cultural heritage is about to absolutely crater.

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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Two things everybody’s missing about the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 02/10/2025

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

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Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi

I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

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