Group/Campaign |
Issues Covered |
Initiatives |
Resources |
Bibliography |
Communication Channels
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A Better Guggenheim |
BIPOC/BAME network, organizing |
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• Learn how to be a better manager to your BIPOC and furloughed employees
• Find support by and for BIPOC within the workplace and outside it.
• Learn about what it means to practice and promote anti-racism.
• Get information and guidance on navigating life as a furloughed employee.
|
• Letter to the Board (June 2020)
• Call for Resignations (September 2020)
|
• Contact form
• Instagram Submissions
|
AFSCME |
unions |
Cultural Workers United |
• COVID-19 resources
• FAQ
• AFSCME Information Highway
• Jobs We Do: Library Workers
|
• Why Organize?
• Weekly legislative reports
|
• Blog
• Facebook (AFSCME)
• Facebook (AFSCME)
• Instagram
• Twitter (CWU)
• YouTube
|
AFT Academics |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
• Solidarity Academy
• Organizer Trainings
|
• Organizing Toolkit
• Know Your Rights
• International Worker Rights
• Supporting Students During COVID-19
• International Students & Workers FAQ
• Online Teaching Toolkit (Association of College and University Educators)
|
• National COVID-19 Response Statement
• Adjunct Faculty Survey Report
• Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19
• Uprising Solidarity Statement
|
• Facebook
• Twitter
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Akron Art Museum Accountability |
organizing, signal boosting |
|
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Twitter
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American Alliance of Museums |
hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity
|
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• Salary Negotiation
• National Museum Salary Survey
• Equitable Hiring Practices
• Resources for the Museum Industry to Discuss the Issue of Unpaid Internships
|
• For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries
• Mutual Aid in a Time of Crisis (August 2020)
|
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Twitter
|
American Association of University Professors |
temporary positions, unions
|
• One Faculty
• AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress
|
• Resources on Contingent Positions
• Resources on Collective Bargaining
|
Reports & Publications
|
• AAUP Updates
• Facebook
• Twitter
|
American Historical Association |
hiring, temporary position, unions
|
|
• Guidelines for First-Round Interviews (2019)
• Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty (2011)
|
Statement on Right to Engage in Collective Bargaining (2019)
|
• Facebook
• Twitter
|
American Library Association Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) |
advancement, salaries, unions |
• ALA-APA Wellness
• Certified Public Library Administrator Program
• Library Support Staff Certification Program
• National Library Workers Day
• Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers
|
• Salary surveys
• Occupation fact sheets
• Occupation resources
• Pay Equity
• Salary Negotiation
• Start a Union
|
• Advocating for Better Salaries Toolkit (6th edition, April 2017)
• Library Worklife newsletter
• Pay Equity Bibliography (August 2013)
• State Libraries Collecting and Reporting Salary Data (August 2016)
• Workplace wellness reports
|
• Facebook (ALA-APA)
• Facebook (National Library Workers Day)
• Facebook (Library Support Staff Certification Program)
• Twitter
|
Archival Workers Emergency Fund |
COVID-19, funding, temporary positions |
• Become an #AWEfund Storyteller
• COVID-19 Impact on Archival Workers Survey
|
Resources for Displaced Archival Workers |
Open Letter to the Archival Community re: Police Brutality |
Twitter
|
Archive Staff Impact During COVID-19 |
COVID-19 |
spreadsheet |
|
|
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Archives & Records Association (UK) |
salaries, volunteers |
Pay Review 2018
|
• Volunteering in Collections Care Best Practices Guidelines & Research Report
• ARA Pay Review Group Summary (August 2018)
• ARA Pay Review Group Freelance Summary (August 2018)
|
|
|
Archivist Salary Advocacy |
salaries |
|
Salary Spreadsheet |
|
Google Group
|
Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York |
hiring, internships, salaries |
|
COVID-19 Resources |
New Job Submission Policy |
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• Twitter
|
ARLIS/NA Advocacy & Public Policy Committee |
hiring, internships, salaries |
News Alerts (see “Workplace” section) |
|
Statement on Staff Reductions in Art Museum Libraries and Visual Resources Collections (December 2013) |
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Art + Museum Transparency |
internships, salaries, unions
|
|
• Salary Spreadsheet (began 2019)
• Internship Spreadsheet (began 2019)
• Unions for All: Unionizing Museum and Arts Workers
|
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• Medium
• Twitter
|
Artists for Workers |
organizing |
Guggenheim projections
NewMuseum.net
|
|
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• Email
• Secure Drop & alternatives
|
Association of Art Museum Directors |
internships, salaries |
Annual salary survey |
|
Association of Art Museum Directors Passes Resolution Urging Art Museums to Provide Paid Internships (June 20, 2019)
|
• Facebook
|
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO |
BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, funding, unions |
• #AAPI2020
• AAPIs Are #EssentialNotExpendable
• IAPALA's COVID-19 Community Fund
• Count Us In. Take the 2020 Census.
|
• Chapters
• Emerging Leaders Training (ELT)
• In response to COVID-19
• Organizing & Leadership Development
• Protest Tips + Organizing for Black Lives
• Worker Resources in response to COVID-19
|
• Untapped Power: The Strength of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Working People (2019)
• Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Behind Bars: Exposing the School to Prison to Deportation Pipeline (December 2015)
• Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: Report from the First National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing (2009)
|
• Contact form
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Twitter
|
Australian Library and Information Association |
mentoring, salaries, temporary positions, volunteers |
• Advocacy campaigns
• Certified Professionals
|
• ALIA LIS Education, Skills and Employment Trend Report
• ALIA LIS pay and employment snapshot 2020 - includes supplements on public, school, special, technical and further education (TAFE), and university libraries
• ALIA Research Agenda
• ALIA Students and New Graduates
• Career and Professional Development Advisory Service
• Library Technicians
• Salary Scales and Work Level Guidelines (members only)
|
• ALIA supplementary statement about casual work in the library and information sector in Australia (September 2020)
• Peak body for libraries opposes changes to university fees for LIS courses (June 2020)
• ALIA urges lower university fees for Teacher Librarians (June 2020)
• Professional development for library and information professionals (2019)
• Statement on non-standard employment (2008, 2018)
• Statement on library and information services staff appointments (2008, 2018)
• Senior library and information services appointments (2008, 2017)
• Statement on voluntary work in library and information services (2017)
Foundation Knowledge, Skills and Attributes relevant to Information Professionals working in Archives, Libraries and Records Management (amended 2015)
• The Library and Information Sector: Core Knowledge, Skills and Attributes (amended 2014)
• The Role of Volunteers in a Contemporary Professional Association (September 2010)
• Library Technician Education in Australia: State of the Nation Report (April 2010)
|
• ALIA Groups
• Elists
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
BIPOC Library Residents Mutual Aid |
COVID-19, mutual aid, BIPOC/BAME network, temporary positions |
• BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Need Survey
• Matchmaking for BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Needs During COVID-19 (form)
• Matchmaking for BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Needs During COVID-19 (spreadsheet)
|
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COVID Residents Open Letter |
|
Campaign for a Better MIT |
benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions |
Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers |
|
|
• #abetterMIT
• Facebook
• Instagram
• News
• Twitter
|
Canadian Association of University Teachers / Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (CAUT) |
COVID-19, unions |
Librarians' and Archivists' Committee |
• CAUT Guidelines for Re-opening Canada’s Universities and Colleges (May 2020)
• COVID-19 and the Academic Workplace: Questions & Answers
|
• Open Educational Resources discussion paper (March 2019)
• Reframing Scholarly Communications discussion paper (April 2002)
• Librarians' Workload discussion paper (November 2000)
• Library Councils discussion paper (October 2007)
• Governance and Librarians discussion paper (April 2000)
• Expanding Role of Teaching by Librarians in Post-Secondary Institutions discussion paper (February 2009)
• Aboriginal and Visible/Racial Minority Librarians discussion paper (March 2008)
|
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• RSS
• Twitter
|
Coalition on the Academic Workforce |
temporary positions |
|
A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members: A Summary of Findings on Part-Time Faculty Respondents to the Coalition on the Academic Workforce Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors (2012) |
|
|
Collections on Contract |
temporary positions
|
• Survey
• Accepting submissions: personal narratives, resource reviews, advice/questions
|
|
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• Blog
• Twitter
|
Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions |
temporary positions
|
• advocacy toolkit
• network for contingent workers
• How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work
|
• Collective Responsibility Labor Toolkit
•• Evaluating Project Design for Worker Equity
•• Recommendations to Funders: Promoting Equitable Approaches to Project Staff Design
•• Talking About Contingency At Work
|
• Attendee posts
• Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)
|
• #IMLSLaborForum
• #CollectiveResponsibility
|
Community of Industrial Relations Librarians |
unions |
|
• Member Libraries
• Member Directory
|
Committee of University Industrial Relations Libraries (April 1971) |
• Email List
• Join/Contact
|
Creating National Library Worker Union |
organizing, unions |
Petition |
|
|
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Culture Workers Education Center |
internships, organizing, mutual aid, salaries & wages, temporary positions, unions |
• Programs
• Services: fiscal sponsorship, private meeting space, visibility
|
Resources |
|
• Contact form
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
|
CUNY Adjunct Project |
organizing, temporary positions |
• Current Initiatives
• Full and Fair Funding
• $7k for Adjuncts
• Toward a Just Contract
• Tuition payments/permanent tuition remission for GC doctoral students
|
Teaching Resources |
Toward a Just Contract, Vol. 1 (June 2017) |
• Blog
• Email
• Facebook
• Listserv
• Twitter
|
Crowd Consortium |
volunteers |
|
Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015) |
|
|
Death to Museums |
COVID-19 |
Dialogue series |
|
|
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube
|
Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO |
gender equity, organizing, student loan debt, temporary positions, unions |
• Legislative and Policy Priorities
• The Professional Union Initiative
|
• Overview of resources
• Toolkit: Advancing Racial Justice in the Professional Workplace
• How Professionals Access Economic Relief from the Government for Lost Work Related to COVID-19
• I'm a Professional. What can a union do for me?
|
• Why Professionals are Unionizing During COVID-19
• Organizing Publications
• Fact Sheets
• Library Professionals: Facts & Figures (August 2020)
• Student Debt: A Critical Challenge Facing Professionals (October 2019)
• Professional Women: A Gendered Look at Inequality in the U.S. Workforce (February 2017)
• Professionals in the Contingent Workforce (August 2016)
• Recourse for Employees Misclassified as Independent Contractors (August 2016)
• Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors (June 2016)
|
• Blog
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• Twitter
|
Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Staff Action |
organizing |
• DIA Staff Action: Share Your Story
• Independent Staff Engagement Survey 2020
|
Q&A: Staff Satisfaction Surveys and upcoming Town Halls |
|
• Email
• Instagram
• medium
• Twitter
|
Dismantle the National WWII Museum |
BIPOC/BAME network, organizing |
Open letter |
|
• An Open Letter to The National WWII Museum's EXECUTIVE team & board of trustees
• Demands
• Testimonials
|
• Email
• Instagram
|
DLF Labor Working Group |
COVID-19, hiring, salaries, temporary positions |
|
• “Do Better” -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums
• Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries (August 2018)
|
• Zotero
• COVID-19 bibliography
|
• Google Group
• #DLFLabor
|
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee |
COVID-19, organizing |
Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 / Organice su lugar de trabajo contra el COVID-19 |
Orientation Guide |
|
|
EveryLibrary Institute |
COVID-19, funding |
Help a Library Worker Out (HALO) Fund |
|
|
• Contact
• Twitter
|
Fair Museum Jobs |
COVID-19, hiring, internships, salaries, volunteers |
Our Campaigns - a list of the organisations we’ve contacted, why contacted them, and how they responded |
Resources |
• Fair Museum Jobs: A Manifesto for Job Adverts and Recruitment
• The Manifesto Explained: Undergraduate Degrees
• The Manifesto Explained: Postgraduate Qualifications
• The Manifesto Explained: Non-disclosure of Salaries
• The Manifesto Explained: Internships and Volunteering
• The Manifesto Explained: Voluntary Roles, Placements and Unpaid Labour
• The Manifesto Explained: Why ‘Desirable’ is not good enough
• A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic
|
• Contact Form
• Twitter
|
Front of House in Museums (FoHMuseums) |
COVID-19, inclusion, temporary positions |
• Campaigning
• Advocacy
• Celebrating
|
Front of House in Museums Survey 2019 |
• What's in a Coffee?
• A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Reopening the Museum
|
• #FoHMuseums
• Contact Form
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Gender Equity in Museums Movement |
gender equity |
|
• 5 Things You Can Do to Support Gender Equity at Work
• 5 Things Your Museum Can Do to Support Gender Equity
• How You Can Help
• Gender Equity in Museum Leadership
• Pay Gap
• Demographics and Diversity
• Employment and Labor Law
• Future of Museum Leadership and Succession Planning
|
• Museums as a Pink-Collar Profession: The Consequences and How to Address Them (March 2019)
• A Call for Gender Equity in the Museum Workplace (November 2016)
|
• #GEMMuseum
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter
|
Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 (University of Michigan) |
COVID-19, disability, gender equity, organizing, unions |
• GEO In Person/Hybrid Work Concerns
• Strike for a Safe and Just Pandemic Response
• COVID-19 Actions
• Stand with MDining Workers
|
• Guidelines for Social Distance Actions
• Disability Accommodations and Resources
• International Student Resources
• Leaves
• Medical Benefits
• Parent and Caregiver Resources
• Salary and Tax Info
• Student Status
• Trans Healthcare
• Workplace and Hours Protections
• COVID-19 Contract FAQs
• COVID-19 and IGSIs FAQs
• COVID-19 Resources
• How Your Appointment Works
• Submit a Grievance
|
• GEO’S Demands for A Safe and Just Pandemic Response for All
• Your Instructor is in a LABOR UNION and is ON STRIKE
• Media Coverage - GEO Work Stoppage
|
• Blog
• Email
• Facebook
• Solidarity Request Form
• Twitter
|
Graduate Employees' Organization at UIUC |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
COVID-19 Resources |
• Immigrants' Resources
• GEO Cross-Campus Mutual Aid Solidarity Fund
• Strategies for Socially Anxious Social Activists
• New Member Orientation Packet
• Bargaining Basics
|
Member Communications |
• Contact form
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Green Book for Libraries |
BIPOC/BAME network |
|
• Academic
• Public
• Special/Government
• School
|
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Contact Form
|
Guggenheim Union (IUOE Local 30) |
unions |
#DoBetterGuggenheim |
|
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Twitter
|
Hiring Librarians |
hiring, salaries |
• Oh Hey, Share Your Salary Info Today! (August 19, 2019)
• Hiring Librarians survey
• Job hunter’s survey & follow-up interviews
|
• Salary Spreadsheet
• Hiring Librarians' Library Interview Question "Database"
• State of the Library Job Market (October 10, 2015)
|
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|
Humanities Technology (UCLA) |
internships, temporary positions |
|
A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015) |
|
• Blog
|
IAM MAM |
organizing, unions |
Union drive at the Milwaukee Art Museum |
|
|
• Email
• Facebook
• IAM Organizer
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
The Incluseum |
|
• When You Worked at a Museum
• & https://incluseum.com/2020/04/27/survey-on-inclusion-in-museums/ Survey on Inclusion in Museums
|
• Resources
• Tools & Publications
|
|
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Indebted Cultural Workers |
salaries & wages, signal boosting |
|
Indebted Cultural Workers: Calculate your salary |
|
Twitter
|
Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition |
COVID-19, organizing, salaries, unions |
Essential Workers, Essential Rights |
• FAQ
• Testimonials: COVID-19
• Graduate Worker Resources
|
• Open Letter: COVID-19 Pandemic
• COVID-19 Open Letter: Immediate Action for Fee Reimbursement
• Statement on International Students & ICE Announcement
• Open Letter: ICE Fall 2020 Statement
• Statement on Fall 2020
|
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Information Maintainers |
|
advocacy toolkit |
|
Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019) |
Google Group
|
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (UC Berkeley) |
COVID-19, internships, organizing, temporary positions, unions |
• Center for Labor Research and Education
• California Policy Lab
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
• Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
• California Public Employee Relations
|
• Labor Contracts Database
• Labor Center Workshops & Leadership Schools
• Labor Summer Internships
• COVID-19 Research and Resources
• Replication Data
|
• Policy Briefs
• Pocket Guides
• CPER Journal
• Working Papers
• Scholarly Publications
• Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
• All publications
|
• Email
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
|
Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems
Warning: animated interface
|
COVID-19 |
• Anti-Museum Reading Group
• I'm at a Museum During a Pandemic! Worksheet & Form
• NYC Museum Re-Opening Spreadsheet
|
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|
• Email
• Instagram
|
Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee |
organizing, unions |
Wall-to-wall union drive |
|
|
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Labor Notes |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
|
• Troublemakers School
• Biennial Conference
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso
• Organizing in a Pandemic: Labor Notes Resources
|
• What Are My Rights to Paid Leave and Unemployment During the Pandemic? (April 2020)
• Concessions and How to Beat Them by Jane Slaughter (1983)
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Magazine Archives
• Twitter
|
LACUNY |
COVID-19, mutual aid |
LACUNY Mutual Aid Network |
|
• LACUNY Statement on COVID-19
• Letter of Support and Solidarity
|
|
Libraries for All STL |
COVID-19 |
We Need Libraries For All: Demand Black Lives Matter at St Louis County Libraries |
|
• We Demand Transparency, Justice, and Jobs Back (August 2020)
• Library eliminating part-timers, but not management (August 2020)
• Kristen Sorth is Harming Our Community — American Libraries Association Must Rescind Leadership Award (September 2020)
|
• Facebook
• Medium
• Twitter
|
LibrariesResist |
COVID-19, mutual aid |
|
• Labor, Staffing, Training (filed under "Management" 🤔)
• Resisting in Library Work
• Health and Pandemics
|
|
• Email
• Facebook
• Feedback form
• Twitter
|
Library Salaries Inequity |
salaries |
|
resource list |
|
|
Make the Road New York |
BIPOC network, COVID-19, organizing |
• Housing & Environmental Justice
• Workplace Justice
• Community Organizing
• TGNCIQ Justice
• Policing and Criminal Justice
• Health Justice
• Education
• Civic Engagement
• Leadership Development
|
• Education, Health, & Legal Services
• Our COVID-19 Response: Updates, Resources and Know Your Rights Information
|
• 150 Días Después de: Desempleadxs y Excluidxs / 150 Days Later: Unemployed & Excluded (August 2019)
• Excluded in the Epicenter: Impacts of the COVID Crisis on Working Class Immigrant, Black, and Brown New Yorkers (May 2020)
• Amazon's Dangerous Jobs (November 2019)
• Beyond Amazon: Reshaping New York’s Approach to Economic Development
• Protecting Immigrant Homes: The Importance of Strengthening and Expanding Tenant Protections for Immigrant New Yorkers (April 2019)
• [Coming Up Short: The State of Wage Theft Enforcement in New York https://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Coming-Up-Short_-The-State-of-Wage-Theft-Enforcement-in-NY-4_8_19.pdf]
• All publications
|
• Email list
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube
|
MCAccountable |
BIPOC/BAME network, organizing |
|
|
• Our Collective Letter to the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contermporary Art Chicago (July 2020)
• An Update from MCAccountable (August 2020)
|
• Email
• Instagram
|
MFA Boston Mutual Aid Fund Steering Committee |
COVID-19, mutual aid, organizing |
MFA Boston Staff Mutual Aid Fund |
How to start a museum mutual aid fund |
Open Source Solidarity: Starting a Mutual Aid Fund at Your Museum |
Email
|
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) |
mentoring, mutual aid |
• MARAC Mutual Aid Network
• Mentoring Program
|
|
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• MARAC Steering Committee Proposal Form
• Twitter
|
MOCAD Resistance |
organizing, temporary positions |
|
|
• Former Staff Letter (July 2020)
• Calls to Action
• MOCAD Resistance Artist + Art-Workers Solidarity Letter
• Press packet (.zip download)
• Affirming Our Commitment to MOCAD
• Visitor Services
• Stories
• Integrity
• Community Partners
• Teen Council letter
• Precarious Positions
• The Fight Continues
|
• Contact form
• Email
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE MPEG Local 700) |
organizing, unions |
Education |
• Coronavirus Information
• Mental Health Resources
• Coronavirus FAQs
• Organizing
• Employers
• Wages, Contracts, and Holidays
|
• CineMontage (journal)
• Post, Coast to Coast (podcast)
• Post, Proud: Organizing with the Editors Guild (documentary short)
|
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Staff contacts
• Twitter
• YouTube
|
Modern Language Association |
hiring, salaries, temporary positions |
• Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
• Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
|
|
• MLA Statement on the Use of Part-Time and Full-Time Adjunct Faculty Members (February 1994)
• Statement on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members (December 2003)
|
• Facebook
• Mailing list
• MLA Commons
• Twitter
|
Movement for Black Lives |
BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, temporary positions, unions |
• Project 2024
• Economic Justice policy platform
• National Demands for COVID-19
• Week of Action
• Virtual Events
• Petition
|
• Policy Platforms
• Mutual Aid Resources
• Resources on Safety and Infiltration (.zip folder)
|
|
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube
|
Museum Detox |
COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network |
• Museum Detox Survey
• Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (application instructions)
• Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (GoFundMe)
|
Coronavirus Covid-19: Information and guidance
|
|
• Blog
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Vimeo
|
Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19 |
COVID-19 |
spreadsheet |
|
|
|
Museum Workers Speak |
COVID-19, funding, mutual aid |
• Museum Workers Relief Fund
• Museum Workers Relief Fund (Bonfire shop)
• 2020 Museums & Race Imagine a [Radical Future virtual conference]
|
Resources |
Statement (May 1, 2020) |
• Email
• Twitter
• Facebook
|
Music Library Association |
COVID-19 |
MLA Emergency Relief Fund |
MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics (2009) |
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Listserv
• Twitter
• Vimeo
|
National Council on Public History |
hiring |
|
Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019) |
|
• Facebook
• Twitter
|
National Education Association (NEA) Center for Organizing |
organizing, unions |
• Winter Organizing Campaign
• Higher Education Organizing
|
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer Trainer's Guide
• C4O Fundamentals of Organizing Toolkit
• C4O Fundamentals of Organizing Resources
• C4O ESP Organizing Toolkit
• C4O Retired Member Organizing Toolkit
• Organizing and Engaging Substitute Educators
• Curriculum on Unionism and the Common Good
• Organizing: People, Power, Change
• Civic Academies Toolkit
|
Advocating for Early Childhood and Adult Educators |
Contact form
|
National Emerging Museum Professionals Network |
hiring, salaries |
• Range on Museum Job Postings Letter Writing Campaign
• Help Make Museums More Equitable
|
|
|
• Blog
• Journal
• Facebook
|
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Workers |
unions |
|
|
|
Twitter
|
New England Archivists |
temporary positions |
New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study (January 2017) |
|
NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018) |
• Facebook
• Need Help with an Advocacy Issue?
• Twitter
|
New Museum Union (UAW Local 2110) |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
• New Museum Union files charges against the New Museum
• Events
|
• FAQ
• Documents
|
• Communiqués
• Letters of Support
|
• Contact
• Email
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
Northwest Archivists |
internships, salaries |
• NWA Archivist-in-Residence
• Survey: The Value of Archivists in the Northwest
|
• Northwest Archivists (NWA): Policy for Acceptable Job Postings
|
• NWA Policy for Acceptable Job Postings
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter
|
@OrganizingLIS |
hiring, internships, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, unions |
|
|
|
Twitter
|
Philadelaphia Museum of Art Union (with AFSCME DC 47) |
organizing, unions |
• Union Election
• Share Your Voice
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Frequently Asked Questions |
• Workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art vote to unionize in historic landslide win. 89% vote yes! (August 2020)
• Community Letter of Support
• We Vote Yes for the PMA Union
• Press page
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• Email
• Instagram
• Twitter
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Postdoctoral Laborers Group |
temporary positions |
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Postdoctoral Bill of Rights (April 9, 2019) |
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Google Group
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Precarity in Libraries |
temporary positions |
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• Data set: Partnership Job Board job postings
• Literature Review & Bibliography
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• Catalog Cards from the Edge: Precarity in Libraries (May 2018)
• Hidden Variables: Researching While Precarious (October 2018)
• Let’s talk precarity (or not): Libraries, community, and conversation (June 2019)
• Perceptions and Experiences of Precarious Employment in Canadian Libraries: An Exploratory Study (September 2019)
• Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Precarious Positions in Canadian Libraries: Statistical Analysis of a National Job Board (September 2020)
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Twitter
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Progressive Librarians Guild |
salaries, temporary positions, unions |
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• Union Library Workers
• discussion list
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Protect Library Workers |
COVID-19, organizing |
• #closethelibraries
• #ProtectLibraryWorkers & communities: Don't reopen libraries until it's safe
• Tracking Library Layoffs
• Weekly Course of Action
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• Safe Reopening Resources
• Tips for Productive Advocacy
• Templates for Letters, Recommendations, Petitions
• Mutual Aid & Other Resources
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• #LIBREV
• Twitter
• Vimeo
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[Public Higher Education Workers] |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
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Public Higher Education Workers (PHEW) Foundational Principles |
Twitter
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Rutgers AAUP-AFT |
COVID-19, unions |
• Rutgers One
• How We're Confronting the Crisis
• Here's What We're Fighting For
• Defend Lincoln Annex
• A People-Centered Approach to COVID Crisis
• Work Sharing Proposal – May 2020
• Libraries Solidarity
• Salary Equity Program
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• Union Fireside Chats
• Here Are the Facts About the Fiscal Emergency
• CARES Act Commission
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• Statement: Justice for George Floyd
• Statements and Resolutions
• Questions and Answers about the “Fiscal Emergency”
• Special Alerts
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• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
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Society of American Archivists Accessibility & Disability Section |
accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions |
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• Archivists at Home
• Inclusive interviewing and recruitment practices for people with disabilities
• Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities
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• Email
• Twitter
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Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness |
salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt |
Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog |
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• Responses and Retrospectives: Rachael Woody on the Decline of History Majors and Its Impact on Archives (December 2018)
• Responses & Retrospectives: Rachael Woody’s Annual Conference Coverage on the Value of Archival Labor Sessions (September 2019)
• Responses & Retrospectives: “maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song” Rosemary K.J. Davis on Student Loan Debt and Its Impact on the Archival Profession (November 2019)
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Blog
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Society of American Archivists Council |
internships, volunteers |
• SAA Update: Advocating For Archivist Pay
• Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six
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• Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education (January 2014)
• Practices for Volunteers in Archives (June 2014)
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Only Paid Internships to Be Posted to the SAA Career Center (July 9, 2019) |
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Society of American Archivists Issues & Advocacy Section |
salaries, temporary positions |
Temporary Labor Survey |
Advocacy Toolkit |
Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019 |
• Blog
• Report an advocacy issue
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Society of American Archivists Students and New Archives Professionals Section |
internships, hiring |
• Academic Internship Survey
• #snaprt chats: Topics include barriers to entry into the archival profession; erasure of archival labor; labor issues in archives
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• Ask an Archivist
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter
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Society of American Archivists Women Archivists Section |
gender equity, salaries |
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The 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey: Initial Results and Analysis |
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Society of California Archivists |
hiring, internships, salaries, temporary positions, unions |
Task Force on Labor Issues within the Profession (2019-2021) |
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Statement in Support of Temporary Archivists at UCLA
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• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Western Archivists Listerv
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Society of Southwest Archivists |
salaries |
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Archives Regional Salary Research |
• Archival Pay and SAA: Some Modest Proposals (April 29, 2019)
• Salary Information Now Required in Job Postings (March 11, 2019)
• Poor Pay in Archives: How Our National Organizations are Failing Us (March 5, 2019)
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• Facebook
• Forums
• News Blog
• Twitter
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Tactical Tech |
organizing |
• Exposing the Invisible
• "Exposing the Invisible" Investigating Institute
• Data Detox Kit
• Our Data Our Selves
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• Exposing the Invisible: The Kit
• Explore
• Educate
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Investigate (case studies) |
• Contact page
• Email
• Facebook
• Mastodon
• Newsletter
• Twitter
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Tech Workers Coalition |
unions |
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• Learning Club
• Local chapters (Austin, Berlin, Boston, DC, LA, London, NYC, PDX, San Diego, Seattle, SF Bay Area, South Florida)
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• Facebook
• Medium
• Newsletter
• Slack
• Twitter
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UAW Local 2110 |
organizing, unions |
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• Member Resources
• UAW Region 9A COVID-19 Resource Page
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Getting Serious: Organizing White Collar Workers (Winter 2015) |
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UC-AFT Unit 17 (UC Librarians) |
unions |
Precarity, academic freedom, professional development, working conditions, housing, and the next contract
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• Our website (and blog) chronicles our campaign and organizing with tools for engagement around our contract
• Bargaining Timeline
• Glossary of Common Terms
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• Blog
• Facebook
• Media coverage
• Twitter (@UCLibrarians)
• Twitter @UCAFT]
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UCLA Six (Temporary Librarians) |
temporary positions |
Open Letter (June 2018) |
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• UCLA Library’s reliance on temporary workers is inefficient, unethical (July 29, 2018)
• SAA Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six (August 2019)
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TinyLetter
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United Academics |
organizing, temporary positions, unions |
Campaigns |
• Non-Tenure Track Faculty Caucus
• Why a Union?
• The Facts about Faculty and Spending at UVM (April 2018)
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Resolutions |
• Facebook
• Staff contacts
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University of California COLA Movement |
COVID-19, organizing, salaries |
• Pay Us More / COLA campaign:
•• pay us more ucsc
•• UCSB 4 COLA
•• UC Davis 4 COLA
•• PAY US MORE UCB!
•• UCI4COLA
•• UCLA4COLA/Cops Off Campus
•• UCSD 4 COLA
•• UCR4COLA
•• UCM4COLA
•• UCSF 4 COLA
• Faculty Organizing Group at UC Santa Cruz
• Strike University
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• Rent Burden Calculator
• How to Strike: Your Guide to the Berkeley Wildcat / Digital Strike
• Recorded Events
• Organizer School
• Strike Syllabus
• UC F*ckery
• Abolitionist Resources
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• Why $1,412
• Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Whitepaper
• No Place Like Home: Affordable Housing in Crisis - Santa Cruz County, CA
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• Email
• Event emails
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Social accounts by campus
• Twitter
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United Academics of the University of Oregon |
salaries, temporary positions, unions |
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• Information for Librarians
• UA Bargaining 101
• We Are Building Our Union
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• We Need Our Librarians! (May 15, 2020)
• United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface (November 4, 2016)
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• Facebook
• The Duck & Cover (newsletter)
• Twitter
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United Campus Workers of Virginia |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
• #ActFastUVA
• Fight Austerity
• Assure Safety
• Solidarity Together
• #ActFastUVA petition
• Aid and PPE for UVA's Frontline Workers (see also press release)
• Labor Day 2020 Teach-In: "Lessons from Labor History at UVA"
• Die-in
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• Using UVA's Endowment to Fight Austerity
• Organizing 101 training
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• Open Letter from the Library staff members of United Campus Workers VA at UVa
• UCWVA Zine #1: "Union for UVA!"
• UCWVA Zine #2: Union Mythbusting 101
• UCWVA Responds to UVA Decision Approving In-Person Instruction (August 2020)
• UCWVA announces campaign against in-person instruction and austerity, calls for solidarity and justice (August 2020)
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• Contact form
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Soundcloud
• Twitter
• YouTube
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United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
• The Fight of Our Lives
• Fight for Medicare for All, Single-Payer Healthcare
• UE International Solidarity
• UE Research and Education Fund
• North American Solidarity Project
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• UE Policy
• COVID-19 Information for Workers
• Information for Workers
• Preparing for and Conducting a Strike: A UE Guide
• Fighting "Right to Work"
• Organize a Union in Your Workplace with UE!
• UE Video
• A UE Steward's Guide to Fighting COVID-19
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• UE Statements
• Labor's Untold Story (1955)
• UE Political Action Updates
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• Email
• Facebook
• Locals
• Twitter
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United Museum Workers |
organizing, unions |
United Museum Workers Organizing Campaign |
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• Instagram
• Talk to an organizer
• Twitter
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University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) |
benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions |
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• Renewing a Term-Limited Contract
• Employment Equity Guide
• CAUT handbook for new faculty - Negotiating starting salaries
• Negotiating a probationary position
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• Blog
• Twitter
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University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA 9119 (UPTE-CWA 9119) |
organizing, unions |
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Handbook for Fair Pay |
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• Email
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
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We Here |
BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, mutual aid |
• Community School
• COVID-19 Relief Grants for We Here's Black Members
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• Join closed groups
• Submit a Job
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up//root
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• Blog
• Instagram
• Twitter
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WITNESS |
COVID-19, organizing |
• WITNESS Media Lab
• Video Archiving
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• COVID-19 Response Hub
• WITNESS Library
• Activists' Guide to Archiving Video
• Video as Evidence Field Guide
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• Contact Form + Newsletter
• Facebook
• Flickr
• WITNESS Twitter
• WITNESS Media Lab Twitter
• WITNESS YouTube
• Training Videos YouTube
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Workers for Workers |
organizing, temporary positions |
• #workersforworkers Survey
• Solidarity Fund for Fired FB Contingent Workers
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• Stories
• Retaliation
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• #workersforworkers
• Twitter
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You Ought to Be Ashamed |
hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers |
job posting reviews |
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blog
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