#libraryunions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #libraryunions, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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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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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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"Scratch nearly any kind of story—political, social, economic, cultural, and so on—and you’ll find a labor story. […] Public libraries are no exception, and Republicans' current headline-grabbing obsession with what goes on inside them is very much a labor issue."
#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #BookBans #ProtectLibraryWorkers #DanielBooneRegionalLibrary #PublicLibraries #LibraryLabor
🔗 https://www.fastcompany.com/90881286/book-bans-drag-story-hour-protests-librarians-safety
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"The [Ferndale Library] union campaign gave the library workers something concrete to ask their patrons and the broader community to do if they wanted to strengthen their library, too, a way to be part of defending the library from the kinds of hostile book challenges other libraries nearby […] had been bombarded with, where responding to challenges had become a full-time job for some library workers."
#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BookBans
🔗 https://newrepublic.com/article/170920/conservative-book-bans-libraries-fighting-back