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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

Screenshot of text: "As librarians and other library staff are working to build democratic institutions at Penn, the university administration is attempting to undermine them. As they have repeatedly done in past organizing drives, administrators have hired an anti-union law firm and launched an anti-union campaign designed to interfere with workers’ legal right to organize. They have disseminated misleading and intimidating anti-union materials framed as neutral “information,” a standard tactic that employers use to sow fear, doubt, and confusion and sway the outcome of elections. We call on Penn’s central administration and on library administrators to cease this coercive attempt to interfere with workers’ right to organize, and we call on them to honor the legacy of negotiation with a well-established union at Penn. Only by ending the anti-union campaign can the university administration demonstrate respect for the principle of workplace democracy—a principle that we so desperately need at Penn and across higher education today."

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

The ALA Social Responsibilities Round Tables (SRRT) is accepting proposals for a free virtual Afternoon of Social Justice event, with "Library labor and unionization" as one of the topics for which they are soliciting presentation proposals

🔗 https://forms.gle/2yxQY9eVG2H2jpV18

#AmericanLibraryAssociation #ALA #SRRT #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnionization