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Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace

🔗 https://brookline.news/brookline-library-faces-high-staff-turnover-amid-allegations-of-toxic-workplace/

#BrooklineMA #BrooklinePublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions

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

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

Sending a big shush to governments that say they can't pay library workers a living wage

🔗 https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/sending-a-big-shush-to-governments-that-say-they-cant-pay-library-workers-a-living-wage/

#HalifaxPublicLibraries #HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #UnionStrike #CanadaLibraries

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

🔗 https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/04/ala-apa-salaries-and-status-library-workers-committee-host-two-webinars

#ALA #ALAAPA #LIbraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers

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

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

Upcoming #LibraryFreedomProject webinar:

Labor Organizing in Libraries
February 28 at 7:00PM ET

With 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

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

🔗 https://www.afscme.org/blog/newberry-library-employees-win-first-contract-a-year-after-forming-a-union

#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #NewberryWorkersUnited #NewberryLibrary #AFSCME

"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

"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