Supporting Library Workers in Current Negotiations
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Save our libraries – again
Fourteen years ago when then mayor Rob Ford cut millions of dollars from the library’s budget, tens of thousands of you joined our fight back. We need you to be library warriors again. Our union represents the 2,600 library workers at the Toronto Public Library (TPL). Our members work in some of the last truly…
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See The Librarians with library workers!
Join us for a FREE screening of the Emmy Award-winning documentary THE LIBRARIANS! SYNOPSIS: As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy. With the Alberta provincial government recently banning books from…
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See “The Work” at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
“The Work” is a short film about library workers, the difficulties they face and the communities they serve, at a time when libraries have become so much more than buildings full of books. With a growing gap between rich and poor, and an explosion of homelessness, overdoses, and desperation, libraries and their workers step in…
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Supporting Library Workers in Current Negotiations
Intense bargaining between the Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) and the TPL Board hasn’t resulted in an agreement yet. The Board is still pressing for concessions especially around Sunday work and not addressing library workers’ needs. If the negotiations come to a standstill, the Union’s bargaining committee may decide that strike action is necessary.…
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