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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

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

#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #NewberryWorkersUnited #NewberryLibrary #AFSCME

Death By Chocolate Advent Calendar?

#AdventCalendar2022
#December21 Day 21/24

Come-Hither Chocolate Advent Calendar!
German merchant Cornelius Heilwagen's friends gave him many risqué illuminations for his 18th c. album amicorum. This "lady's" chocolate is so alluring that her romantic target's face was censored!
#NewberryLibrary (Case MS 5471)

Many early modern treatises were penned about the morality and healthfulness of chocolate, drinking and otherwise, once it became a fad.