Layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum have the couple hundred protesters who gathered outside the building on Tuesday frustrated.

“It’s an injustice. It’s not the Brooklyn way,” one worker said on the condition of anonymity.

The museum employee who works in public safety said he’s concerned about possible backlash.

The museum cites inflation and a slow post-pandemic bounce back as some of the reasons why it must cut 10% of its workforce, but the worker and other protesters say it’s mismanagement.

“Mismanagement of funds totally. We’re all going through inflation, but the way they spend money here on the backs of their employees is disgraceful,” the employee said.

The museum is facing a $10 million deficit.

“We have the president, Anne Pasternack; her salary is over $1 million. Why doesn’t she give $500,000 to that deficit?” Wilson Souffrant, president of Local 1502, said.

Pasternack and senior leaders, though, will take a 10% to 20% salary cut.

Souffrant called the 47 layoffs calculated, based on how much notice the museum would have had to give.

“If they were to go over 50 positions, they would have to give us at least 60 days [notice],” Souffrant said.

Souffrant says they were able to buy time after the layoffs were originally scheduled for a few days, after he had been notified.

“Today they want to balance that deficit on the back of our employees. We say no,” Souffrant said.

Layoffs are scheduled for March 10.