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CAUT Librarians and Archivists Conference (Ottawa, 03–04 October 2025): "Solidarity or Bust: Resisting Corporatization in Libraries and Archives"

https://www.caut.ca/event/librarians-and-archivists-conference/

Agenda includes: corporatization, AI, building solidarity; also workshops on McAlevey's Organizing for Power system.

In my experience these conferences are great.

#LibraryUnions #O4P #CAUTLIB

(#CAUT is the Canadian association of higher-ed faculty and librarian associations and unions.)

Hiring Librarians Podcast S02b E13: Talkin Union with Jaime Taylor

We’re back!

After an unintentionally long break, we’re back. Let’s consider this Season 2b.

This episode my guest is Jaime Taylor. Jaime is a contributing person-who-hires-library-workers on the Further Questions feature here on Hiring Librarians (which returns tomorrow), the Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, a proud union member, AND a coordinator of library staff working in THREE different unions. On this episode of the hiring librarians podcast, we’re talking about unions, hiring, getting hired, and what exactly systems librarians do anyway. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

Speaking of links, in this episode we talk about:

Massachusetts Society of Professors (MSP)
Professional Staff Union of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston (PSU)
University Staff Association (USA)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
National Education Association (NEA)
Jorts (and Jean) One Step for Each Paw Four Steps to Form a Union
DC37 (New York City Public Employee Union)
United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
And you’ll hear three different commercials for my upcoming class through ALA CORE which runs August 4 through August 29, 2025

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

#Librarian #librarians #libraries #Library #libraryCareers #libraryHiring #libraryJobs #LibraryUnions #LISCareers #Unions

I bought a variety of cool stickers and buttons from @Anneheathen and will be giving some to union-librarian colleagues. There are dozens available: if you like books and libraries and dislike interfering bigots, you'll find something you want.

https://www.miskatonic.org/2024/11/21/annearchy/

#librarians #anarchism #LibraryUnions

Stickers that say: pro-union; radical librarian — decenter, decolonize, dismantle; without rulers, not without rules; no gods, no masters; eat the rich; and librarian. There is a Canadian quarter for scale.

A union arbitration (on a grievance about lack of librarian hiring) set for next week was abruptly cancelled today by the Employer and rescheduled for April ... of 2026.

"How about never—is never good for you?"

#LibraryUnions #Librarians #YorkUniversity

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

Cover of "Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers" listing authors Angelo Moreno, Kelly McElroy, Meredith Kahn, and Emily Drabinski with an abstract black-and-white pattern of an assembly of blocks

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

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

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

Librarians describe their path to unionization at Miami University for the Journal of Radical Librarianship

🔗 https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/116

#MiamiUniversity #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #JournalOfRadicalLibrarianship #Unionization

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

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

🔗 https://aflcio.org/2024/4/18/service-solidarity-spotlight-iam-hails-passage-library-worker-rights-legislation

#LibraryWorkersEmpowermentAct #BaltimoreCountyPublicLibrary #HB609 #SB591 #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

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

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

On Reddit: "For private universities where librarians are non-tenure track, how are bargaining units determined?"

🔗 https://www.reddit.com/r/OrganizingLibraries/comments/1axzhsd/question_about_bargaining_units_in_private/

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #NLRB

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

🔗 https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/communities/upper-arlington/2024/01/25/upper-arlington-aims-to-become-4th-columbus-area-library-to-join-union/72350343007/

#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #OhioFederationOfTeachers #UpperArlingtonPublicLibrary #LibraryLabor

#LibraryUnions

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