35.8% of Library Workers Covered by Collective Bargaining

The 2005 Survey of Librarian Salaries read, “Which of your library’s employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement?” We did not define “other professionals.” This question was asked to update data collected in the supplement to the 1997 Librarian Salary Survey. The 1997 study found some or all support and professional staff were covered by a collective bargaining agreement in 34.3% of the 891 libraries that responded. In the 2005 survey, 2040 public and academic libraries responded and at least one category of staff was covered in 35.8% (732) of libraries.



The results of the 2005 Survey of Librarian Salaries question about
library employees covered by collective bargaining is in the latest
issue of the ALA-APA Newsletter, Library Worklife -
http://www.ala-apa.org/newsletter/current.html#statistics

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