by Admin | Apr 29, 2016 | Media Coverage
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by Admin | Apr 8, 2016 | Media Coverage
Source: The Guardian Leading authors have come out in support of the occupation of a much-loved south London community library at the sharp end of spending cuts that are presenting an existential crisis for libraries across the country. Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby and...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2016 | Media Coverage
Source: Torontoist Union president Maureen O’Reilly says the time has come for the city to treat its library workers properly. BY TANNARA YELLAND The Toronto Public Library is, as union president Maureen O’Reilly will be the first to tell you, the most-used...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Media Coverage
Source: CBC Unpredictable employment spreads to white-collar jobs once considered realms of stablility The Canadian Press They’re part-time employees without health benefits or pensions who work split shifts at a number of different locations each week. From one...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2016 | Media Coverage
Source: iPolitics.ca TORONTO – They’re part-time employees without health benefits or pensions who work split shifts at a number of different locations each week. From one paycheque to the next, their income fluctuates, as do their hours. These aren’t workers hustling...
by Admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Media Coverage
Source: Toronto Star By: David Rider City The Mayor John Tory administration has new contracts with inside and outside workers but librarians — the only city staff to strike during the Ford years — are at the bargaining table and not happy. “Our big issue is...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Press release
Media Advisory Toronto/CNW – The Toronto Public Library Workers Union – Local 4948 and the Toronto Women’s City Alliance will launch a campaign to highlight the growing social and economic hazards of “Precarious Work” among workers employed by the City of...
by Admin | Dec 31, 2015 | Media Coverage
Source: Toronto Star By: Sara Mojtehedzadeh The writer and poet T.S. Eliot once called libraries the “best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” But judging by the concerns of Toronto workers staffing the world’s largest public library system, the...
by Admin | Jun 2, 2015 | Media Coverage
Source: Toronto Star By: Laurie Monsebraaten Toronto has the highest rate of child poverty, more working poor and the largest inequality gap of any city in the country. It is a recipe for urban decay and social unrest that anti-poverty activists say the city can no...
by Admin | Nov 28, 2014 | Press release
TORONTO, Nov. 28, 2014 /CNW/ – The union that represents 2,200 librarians and other workers at the Toronto Public Library is strongly challenging the Toronto Public Library Board Chair because of his “remarkably uninformed” denial of the need for...
