Bloomberg’s Budget to Decimate Queens Public Library
With John Hyslop, Pres., Queens Library Guild, Local 1321 , DC 37 AFSCME.
Library workers are fighting Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $25.3 http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmillion in budget cuts to the Queens Public Library. Since 2008, over 200 jobs have already been lost through attrition and layoffs. The current proposed 30% cut will result in library
hours being at their lowest level ever, less than in NYC’s budget crisis of the 1970s.
These cuts would slash library services; close branches 2-3 days a week; end free computer and Internet services; destroy the materials budget; and force 234 Library employees to be laid off. Local 1321 is sponsoring a demonstration outside the Central Library on Merrick Blvd.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Youngstown Librarians Ratify Contract
Public Librarian Association of Youngstown, which is affiliated with Service Employees International Union District 1199.
The board of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County has ratified an agreement with its librarians that includes a pay freeze and reductions in vacation and sick time.
The pact is with the Public Librarian Association of Youngstown, which is affiliated with Service Employees International Union District 1199.
The board of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County has ratified an agreement with its librarians that includes a pay freeze and reductions in vacation and sick time.
The pact is with the Public Librarian Association of Youngstown, which is affiliated with Service Employees International Union District 1199.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Dial 1-800-Unionism Is Not the Answer
Dial 1-800-Unionism Is Not the Answer
by Steve Early
When the history of public sector de-unionization in the Midwest is written, its sad chroniclers will begin their story in Indiana. That's where Governor Mitch Daniels paved the way, six years ago, for more recent attacks on workers' rights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan.
Daniels, a right-wing Republican, was elected in 2004. He got plenty of help from the Republican Governors Association, which that year received $500,000 from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of then-president Andy Stern's misbegotten but Obama-like embrace of bi-partisanship. (In his 2006 book, A Country That Works, Stern boasted about being the RGA's "largest contributor.")
by Steve Early
When the history of public sector de-unionization in the Midwest is written, its sad chroniclers will begin their story in Indiana. That's where Governor Mitch Daniels paved the way, six years ago, for more recent attacks on workers' rights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan.
Daniels, a right-wing Republican, was elected in 2004. He got plenty of help from the Republican Governors Association, which that year received $500,000 from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of then-president Andy Stern's misbegotten but Obama-like embrace of bi-partisanship. (In his 2006 book, A Country That Works, Stern boasted about being the RGA's "largest contributor.")
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