Director Search: Wirtz Labor Libary at the Department of Labor in Washington DC.

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Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa), an information and
knowledge management company, seeks an innovative, energetic and
enthusiastic manager to lead the Wirtz Labor Libary at the Department of
Labor in Washington DC.

Job Details
Requisition Number 09-0034
Post Date 7/1/2009
Title Library Project Manager
City Washington
State DC


Responsibilities:

- Ensures the efficient and effective day-to-day operations of the
library. - Implements and maintains appropriate library materials and
resources,
in both print and non-print form.
- Develops and implements strategic plans for the Library.
- Analyzes and coordinates departmental budget estimates.
- Hires, trains, manages and evaluates staff including technical
assistants and librarians.
- Establishes library policies and procedures.
- Develops and maintains, in conjunction with the IT Department,
appropriate and accessible electronic resources in the library.
- Performs regular collection analysis and development.

Requirements

Qualifications (Required):

- MLS or equivalent from ALA-accredited school
- Three years of experience in management and supervision of libraries
(government library experience preferred)
- Experience interacting with high level government officials and
contracting personnel - Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team to
achieve library and corporate goals.
- Good PR skills and excellent communication capabilities.
- Knowledge of integrated library systems and other automated library
technologies
- Ability to interpret policies and to coordinate budgets.
- Ability to qualify for National Agency Background Check.
- Proof of U.S. citizenship

University of Minnesota Technical Assistants- AFSCME Local 3937 and Local 3801 -Vote to Ratify TA for 2009-2011

The members of AFSCME Local 3937 and Local 3801 (Technical, UMD) voted by majority to ratify the Tentative Agreement for 2009-2011.
The contract will be presented to the Regents for a vote. As there is no August Regents meeting, it is probable that this presentation will occur at the September meeting. That is the last step in the process.
If you have any questions about the contract or the new provisions, please get in touch with us here or talk to anyone on the Technical Bargaining Unit Negotiations Committee.
We sincerely thank everyone who cast a ballot, and appreciate your support throughout the negotiations.
NOW - get involved! Be a part of your Union! Remember, our union depends on members like you for its ideas and energy.

The Technical Unit Negotiations Committee:

* Barbara Bezat - Andersen Library (West Bank), Co-chair
* Denise Osterholm - Duluth Campus, Local 3801 President, Co-chair
* Ken Holm - RAR (St. Paul Campus)
* Krista Gallagher - Med Area (East Bank)
* Ron Kubik - Morris Campus
* Greg Knoblauch - Vet Teaching Hospital (St. Paul Campus)
* Jody Ebert - Wilson Library (West Bank)
* Ryan Mattke - Wilson Library (West Bank)
* Beth Wolszon - Wilson Library (West Bank)

Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood

Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood by Dennis Broe.

ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3322-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3322-5
Pubdate: 1/25/2009.Series: Working in the Americas

University Press of Florida.




By following the evolution of film noir during the years following World War II, Broe illustrates how the noir figure represents labor as a whole. In the 1940s, both radicalized union members and protagonists of noir films were hunted and pursued by the law. Later, as labor unions achieve broad acceptance and respectability, the central noir figure shifts from fugitive criminal to law-abiding cop.

Expanding his investigation into the Cold War and post��/11 America, Broe extends his analysis of the ways film noir is intimately connected to labor history. A brilliant, interdisciplinary examination, this is a work that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.

Save the UCLA and Berkeley Labor Centers and the Miguel Contreras Labor Program !

The UCLA and UC Berkeley Labor Centers and the Miguel Contreras Labor Program should not be unfairly singled out and targeted for elimination. They represent a small fraction of the UC budget, and provide an invaluable resource to the university and to the people of California. The attack on the Miguel Contreras Labor Program is also an attack on academic freedom. The Governor has taken this unilateral action without consultation, justification, or explanation.




Peter Dreier writes:

Among the small number of labor studies programs, the one at the University of California-Los Angeles is one of the best, and now it has been targeted for extinction by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the UCLA administration. Allies of the UCLA Labor Center have mounted a letter-writing campaign to persuade Chancellor Gene Block to reverse this decision and restore funding for this cutting-edge program. Block can be reached at: chancellor@conet.ucla.edu.

Furloughs for Fresno State Librarians in the Works

Four employee unions at California State University, Fresno have voted to approve a tentative agreement that could lead to two-day-a-month furloughs for non-faculty employees.

The vote at Fresno State was 231 in favor of ratification and 42 against, says Nancy Kobata, the Fresno Chapter 309 president.

Fresno State staffers are members of four statewide bargaining units of the California State University Employees Union, SEIU Local 2579, which represent administrative staff, librarians, plant operations workers, office workers, technicians and other employees.

Union members throughout the 23-campus CSU system are voting on the furlough agreement which was negotiated in response to a $584 million gap between state support and the cost of educating students at the nation’s biggest state university system during 2009-10.

If the agreement is approved by members statewide, campus-specific furlough plans would be adopted for Fresno State and each of the other 22 CSU campuses.

The estimated 10 percent salary savings from furloughs would be added to increased revenue from higher student fees, enrollment limits, hiring and salary freezes, class-section decreases and operational, building and maintenance cutbacks to close the gap.

There Is Power in a Union - 2008-2009.

"There Is Power in a Union - 2008-2009" is a chronology of articles and events about librarians and unions Progressive Librarian no. 32 (Winter/Spring 2009) p. 55-67.
In 2008 the only reporting and analysis of librarians and unions indexed in Library Literature & Information Science Full Text was published in the Progressive Librarian.
Progressive Librarian #30 (Winter 2007/20080 focused on Library Workers in Unions with "So Promising of Success": The Role of Local 88 in the Development of the Chicago Public Library, 1937-1952, by Joyce M. Latham; "An Indomitable Spirit: The Eight Hundred of CUPE 391," by Anita Galanopoulos; and "There is Power in a Union-2007." Progressive Librarian #31 (summer 2008) included "The Union Difference for Library Workers, Salary Survey 2006;" "Library Workers: Facts and Figures;" and "Professional Women: Vital Statistics."
The lack of attention to union issues in the general library press continues to be a concern that should be addressed by those who believe that library workers and their conditions of worklife contribute to better library service. As posted at American Rights at Work,

"Unions are an essential part of a strong democracy and play a crucial role in America's public and community life. Not only do they give workers a voice on the job and help negotiate fair benefits and wages for their members, but they also use their political and economic resources to raise the floor for everyone who works for a living."

The full text of " There Is Power in a Union - 2008-2009" can be read using the index Library literature & information science full text from WIlsonline. An audio version is available there as well.

LaborFest 2009

Lincoln Cushing--
The History of Public Funding and the Arts
and Coit Tower Walk and 75th Anniversary of the Murals.

LaborFest 2009.

This year is the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike and the West Coast maritime workers strike. The ‘34 strike and maritime strike was an important point in strengthening organized labor and bringing hundreds of thousands of workers into our unions. In commemoration of this significant historical anniversary for San Francisco and Northern California labor, LaborFest will be having many special events including an art exhibition, presentations, a labor jeopardy contest as well as a labor film festival that will include videos of the San Francisco general strike. LaborFest this year will also be honoring the workers who made the strike, the role of the San Francisco Labor Council and the workers who have built the Bay Area including building the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and the newly constructed Al Zampa Bridge which is the first major bridge named after an iron worker. Labor faces great challenges today as it did 75 years ago and the need to learn about our history, and how we won victories in the past is vital for today.

Clermont County, OH to Cut 24 Employees

Clermont County Public Library trustees voted Wednesday, July 1, to lay off 24 employees, suspend a multi-million dollar branch in Union Township and cut operating hours to eight per day, six days per week.