Unionized employees at the Whitney Museum of American Art have called off a planned walkout after ratifying a new contract late on Sunday, October 4, hours before a strike deadline set for Monday. Workers represented by UAW Local 2110 had planned to picket outside the museum beginning October 5, a move that would have disrupted press, VIP and member previews for the museum's Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, Like New, which opens to the public on October 11. Under the agreement, the union's second three-year contract with the museum, staff will receive pay increases of at least 14.75 percent across the board over four years. The deal also establishes a new wage floor of 26 dollars an hour for visitor experience, membership and retail workers, with the same scheduled increases applied. The contract adds longevity bonuses for employees with a decade or more of service, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, expanded bereavement leave and stronger health and safety protections. The Whitney unit was one of four New York City museum workforces organized under UAW Local 2110 that authorized strike action this year after prolonged contract talks. Union staff at the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum all secured new contracts in recent days without setting strike deadlines. The Whitney's local, by contrast, set an October 5 deadline tied to the Lichtenstein preview week, making it the only unit to threaten an active walkout. Erika Wentworth, who works in the Whitney's graphic design department, credited solidarity across the union's ranks for the outcome, saying the museum understood the strike threat was serious and that negotiations advanced substantially in the final days. The ratification closes out a tense bargaining cycle that had cast a shadow over the museum's autumn season.