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Hiring Librarians Podcast S02b E13: Talkin Union with Jaime Taylor
We’re back!
After an unintentionally long break, we’re back. Let’s consider this Season 2b.
This episode my guest is Jaime Taylor. Jaime is a contributing person-who-hires-library-workers on the Further Questions feature here on Hiring Librarians (which returns tomorrow), the Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, a proud union member, AND a coordinator of library staff working in THREE different unions. On this episode of the hiring librarians podcast, we’re talking about unions, hiring, getting hired, and what exactly systems librarians do anyway. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.
An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.
Speaking of links, in this episode we talk about:
- Massachusetts Society of Professors (MSP)
- Professional Staff Union of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston (PSU)
- University Staff Association (USA)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
- National Education Association (NEA)
- Jorts (and Jean) One Step for Each Paw Four Steps to Form a Union
- DC37 (New York City Public Employee Union)
- United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- And you’ll hear three different commercials for my upcoming class through ALA CORE which runs August 4 through August 29, 2025
This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).
I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!
#Librarian #librarians #libraries #Library #libraryCareers #libraryHiring #libraryJobs #LibraryUnions #LISCareers #Unions
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I bought a variety of cool stickers and buttons from @Anneheathen and will be giving some to union-librarian colleagues. There are dozens available: if you like books and libraries and dislike interfering bigots, you'll find something you want.
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A union arbitration (on a grievance about lack of librarian hiring) set for next week was abruptly cancelled today by the Employer and rescheduled for April ... of 2026.
"How about never—is never good for you?"
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Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace
#BrooklineMA #BrooklinePublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions
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As libraries become public stages for social problems—homelessness, drug use, mental health—the people who work there are burning out
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/well/mind/librarian-trauma-homeless-drugs-mental-illness.html
#ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #UrbanLibrariansUnite #UrbanLibrarians #UrbanLibraries #LibraryWorkerSupportNetwork
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Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers
🔗 https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #AngeloMoreno #KellyMcElroy #MeredithKahn #EmilyDrabinski #ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation
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Sending a big shush to governments that say they can't pay library workers a living wage
#HalifaxPublicLibraries #HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #UnionStrike #CanadaLibraries
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Three hundred and forty Halifax Public Library workers could be on the picket lines in less than two weeks if an agreement is not reached with library management
🔗 https://hotcountry1035.ca/2024/08/15/87849/
#HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #NSUPE #NSUPELocal14 #NovaScotia #Halifax
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From a statement of the AAUP—Penn Executive Committee on Penn Libraries United:
🔗 https://aaup-penn.org/statement-of-the-aaup-penn-executive-committee-on-penn-libraries-united/
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnionization #LibraryUnions #PennLibrariesUnited #PennLibraries #Penn #UniversityOfPennsylvania #Unionization #AFSCME #DistrictCouncil47 #AAUP #AAUPPenn
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On June 21, 2024, librarians, curators, developers, and other staff at the Penn Libraries delivered a letter to the Vice Provost/Director of the Penn Libraries announcing that they are unionizing as Penn Libraries United (PLU)
🔗 https://pennlibrariesunited.github.io/blog/firstpost/
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnionization #LibraryUnions #PennLibrariesUnited #PennLibraries #Penn #UniversityOfPennsylvania #Unionization #AFSCME #DistrictCouncil47
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Librarians describe their path to unionization at Miami University for the Journal of Radical Librarianship
🔗 https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/116
#MiamiUniversity #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #JournalOfRadicalLibrarianship #Unionization
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Leaders of New York City's three library systems have for months warned that if budget cuts instituted last year and funding reductions that together total nearly $60 million included in Mayor Eric Adams' executive budget are enacted, Saturday service across the five boroughs' 219 branches could be eliminated
🔗 https://thechiefleader.com/stories/city-libraries-face-prospect-of-5-day-weeks,52374
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #NYC #AFSCME #DC37 #NYPL #NewYorkPublicLibrary #QPL #QueensPublicLibrary #BPL #BrooklynPublicLibrary #EricAdams
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The Machinists (#IAM) union, which represents Baltimore County Public Library (#BCPL) workers, is celebrating the passage of the Library Workers Empowerment Act, a milestone piece of legislation initiated by the IAM last year that will grant library staff across Maryland the right to organize
#LibraryWorkersEmpowermentAct #BaltimoreCountyPublicLibrary #HB609 #SB591 #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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The ALA Allied Professional Association's (ALA-APA) Salaries and Status of Library Workers (SSLW) committee invites you to join them for two sessions:
• 5/1: Empowering Library Workers: Navigating Unionization in Challenging Environments
• 5/8: What Comes after Unionization: Effective Engagement with Library Workers#ALA #ALAAPA #LIbraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers
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This week, @librarypunk is joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage
🔗 https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/125-fvrl-and-wpea-union/
#LibraryPunk #WPEA #WashingtonPublicEmployeesAssociation #FortVancouverRegionalLibrary #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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Library employees at Smith College moved to form a union Friday, the latest in a wave of labor organizing on college campuses in New England
🔗 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/11/business/smith-college-library-union/
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LISPrecarity #SmithCollege #SmithCollegeLibrariesWorkersUnion #SCLWU #OPEIU #OPEIULocal153 #Northampton
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In the January/February 2024 issue of #ArchivalOutlook (1/2):
Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement
🔗 https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=814779&p=10&ver=html5
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalUnions #SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #SAA #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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On Reddit: "For private universities where librarians are non-tenure track, how are bargaining units determined?"
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More than two-thirds of library workers at the Upper Arlington Public Library have signed union cards, the first step toward formal organization with the Ohio Federation of Teachers union
#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #OhioFederationOfTeachers #UpperArlingtonPublicLibrary #LibraryLabor
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30,000 California State University professors, librarians, coaches and other workers reached a tentative contract agreement with the university system, ending their planned week-long walkout to demand higher wages
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/cal-state-faculty-strike-tentative-deal
#CFAOnStrike #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CalState #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor
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The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, began a five-day strike that will affect nearly 460,000 students who attend the nation’s largest four-year public university system
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/csu-california-faculty-strike.html
#CFAOnStrike #CaliforniaFacultyAssociation #CalState #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor
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Upcoming #LibraryFreedomProject webinar:
Labor Organizing in Libraries
February 28 at 7:00PM ETWith Kelly McElroy and Meredith Kahn, attendees will brainstorm talking unions to skeptical colleagues and discuss strategies to combat disinformation
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuce-sqjMrHNK1orEld9-EQ94kd0Uv4dit
#LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers
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The Daniel Boone Regional Library employee union and library administration reached a tentative agreement Wednesday, which increases the library’s cost-share for health insurance and provides staff with guaranteed annual raises of 5%, after placement on a new salary scale based on current labor market analysis and years of experience
#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #DanielBooneRegionalLibrary #PublicLibraries #LibraryLabor #Local3311 #DBRLWorkersUnited
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Anne Arundel library employees continue push for union despite board's rejection
#AnneArundelCountyPublicLibrary #AnneArundelCounty #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #AFSCME
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A year after forming their union, Newberry Library employees have won their first contract, which includes:
• 15% increase in pay and a ratification bonus
• freeze of employee costs for health care
• doubling of parental leave
• bilingual pay
• continuing education funding
• grievance procedure and quarterly labor-management meetings#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #NewberryWorkersUnited #NewberryLibrary #AFSCME
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The Salt Lake City Public Library began unionization efforts earlier this year, in hopes of receiving higher pay, better benefits and more transparency
🔗 https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2023/11/06/hargis-jarvis-public-library-union/
#LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #PublicLibraries #SaltLakeCityPublicLibrary #SLCPL #AFSCME
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For its October 2023 issue, the SRRT Newsletter features several articles on labor and unions
🔗 https://www.ala.org/rt/sites/ala.org.rt/files/content/SRRT/Newsletters/srrt223.pdf
#ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation #SocialResponsibilitiesRoundTable #SRRT #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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"The [Newberry Library union] notes that the library’s employment requirements and compensation have become increasingly disparate; the training demanded of archival, library, and cultural work continues to increase as compensation dwindles (last year they found that library assistants, a position that usually requires advanced degrees and training, made just above minimum wage in the city of Chicago)."
🔗 https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/making-waves-newberry-workers-united-chiarts-union/
#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #NewberryWorkersUnited #AFSCME
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File under 's' for solidarity: Union members defend local library
🔗 https://mronline.org/2023/10/03/file-under-s-for-solidarity/
#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #PeabodyInstituteLibrary #DanversMA #NorthShoreLaborCouncil #MassachusettsLibraryStaffAssociation
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"Library workers in Bradford West Gwillibury, a Simcoe County town north of Toronto, have been striking for more than 50 days, one of the longest library strikes in Ontario history."
#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #BradfordWestGwillibury #SimcoeCounty #Ontario #CUPE