Help get our public library
re-opened
Contract talks between library workers and the City have stalled because the City’s negotiators would not budge from their demand for the right to fire librarians and staff anytime they want, for whatever reason they want.
In all good conscience, it is a demand that we cannot accept. For if we did, the door would be wide open for Mayor Ford and his allies on Council to fire the staff that run your neighbourhood branch, then close it.
Please send a message to your Councillor asking that they do everything in their power to get the Library Board back to the bargaining table and to drop their demands for the right to fire at will.
The New Threat:
Mayor Ford has launched a new attack on our public library to achieve the destructive goal so clearly expressed by his brother last year.
Determined to off-load at least parts of our cherished public library to private interests, the Mayor has opened a new front – this time at the bargaining table -- to target librarians and other people who serve you at your neighbourhood branch. The first step is to lower our world class standards of the Toronto Public Library.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-based library management corporation, Library Systems & Services, retained as their lobbyist Doug Christie, a former city politician with close ties to Ford and at least one of his appointees on the Library Board during the City’s recent budget showdown.
