Library Workers
 AFSCME represents more than 20,000 library workers nationwide - more than any other union. AFSCME is a leading advocate for equitable pay for library workers and for full funding for public libraries. From the Library of Congress and public libraries in Boston, New York, the District of Columbia, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle/King County to public, school, college and university libraries nationwide, AFSCME librarians and library workers serve thousands of patrons every day.
Join your brothers and sisters in the AFSCME Library Employees Network. We’ll discuss shared concerns, learn about what’s going on around the country and exchange information and ideas.
Next Wave Toolkit Learn how to start a new Next Wave chapter, host an event, get involved in the election or find more information. The Union Difference for Library Workers Wage and salary differences between union and non-union library workers, based on the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association Salary Survey, 2006. Taken as a whole, U.S. union library workers earn almost 21% more than their non-union counterparts. Note this is a slideshow presentation and it is best viewed using Internet Explorer. ALA-APA Council Passes a Living Wage Resolution The ALA-APA Council passed a living wage resolution for library employees at the American Library Association meeting in Anaheim, California. On Monday, June 30, the ALA-APA Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers, represented by incoming chair Patty Anderson, brought forward a resolution supporting the annual updating of the $40,000 minimum salary for librarians and recommending a salary of $13 an hour for library workers, also to be updated annually. The $40,000 minimum is to be updated by ALA-APA using the All-Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI), the standard measure for inflation of goods and services, which is adjusted monthly to reflect price inflation; the $13.00 is to be adjusted annually in relation to the Federal poverty guidelines. The resolution, after some discussion, passed unanimously. (PDF)
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