#libraryunions — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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"Staff at the Pickerington Public Library are organizing to form a union. If successful, they would become the third library system in central Ohio to unionize through the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT)."
#PickeringtonPublicLibrary #OhioFederationOfTeachers #OFT #PickeringOhio #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
🔗 https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/workers-at-another-public-library-in-ohio-vote-to-unionize/
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The next #ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table newsletter theme is Labor and Unions
Submit relevant articles to their online form by 9/30: http://forms.gle/28sJ5nc5igev63ZP7
#LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions #AmericanLibraryAssociation #SRRT #SocialResponsibilitiesRoundTable
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👀 the Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement zine created for #saa23!
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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RSVP for a NYC Union Library Worker Picnic on August 13th in Central Park 🌳
#NYCUnionLibraryWorkers #UFT #PSC_CUNY #DC37 #Local1321 #Local1482 #Local1930 #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers
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The ALA-APA Salaries and Status of Library Workers committee will host "Doing the Work: Unions, Coalitions, and Front-line Library Workers" on 6/25 at #ALAAC23
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"Because library management failed to adequately address these risks, union members stood in solidarity together and negotiated a contract that not only provides temporary transfers for endangered workers but also includes notification procedures to alert workers at various branches when a patron is banned."
#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #LibrarySafety #WorkersMemorialDay #CarnegieLibraryOfPittsburgh #UAW
🔗 https://www.alternet.org/union-members-workers-memorial-day/
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"With the lack of competitive wages, vacancies [at New Haven Free Public Library] have become a larger issue, making it difficult to maintain current hours—let alone expanded hours—according to Robison. She said that the rise of the cost of living, along with the expense of the professional degree required to be a librarian, has made it difficult for some library staff to meet their basic necessities."