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** [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/evaluating-project-design-worker-equity/ Evaluating Project Design for Worker Equity] | ** [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/evaluating-project-design-worker-equity/ Evaluating Project Design for Worker Equity] | ||
** [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/recommendations-funders/ Recommendations to Funders: Promoting Equitable Approaches to Project Staff Design] | ** [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/recommendations-funders/ Recommendations to Funders: Promoting Equitable Approaches to Project Staff Design] | ||
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* [https://facebook.com/nationalcouncilonpublichistory Facebook] | * [https://facebook.com/nationalcouncilonpublichistory Facebook] | ||
* [https://twitter.com/ncph Twitter] | * [https://twitter.com/ncph Twitter] | ||
=== [https://www.nea.org/resource-library/center-organizing-resources National Education Association (NEA) Center for Organizing] === | |||
'''Issues:''' organizing, unions | |||
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* [https://www.nea.org/resource-library/winter-organizing-campaign Winter Organizing Campaign] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/about-nea/our-members/higher-education-faculty-staff Higher Education Organizing] | |||
'''Resources:''' | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Education%20Secrets%20Trainers%20Guide%20-%20June%2022.pdf Secrets of a Successful Organizer Trainer's Guide] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/22122_C4O%20Organizing%20Toolkit.pdf C4O Fundamentals of Organizing Toolkit] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/22122_C4O%20Org_Toolkit%20Resources.pdf C4O Fundamentals of Organizing Resources] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/33117_nea_esp_org_toolkit_Update%204_September%202017_.pdf C4O ESP Organizing Toolkit] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/RetireeOrganizing_0.pdf C4O Retired Member Organizing Toolkit] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Organizing%20Substitute%20Educators%20-%20NBI-77.pdf Organizing and Engaging Substitute Educators] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Curriculum%20on%20Unionism%20and%20the%20Common%20Good.pdf Curriculum on Unionism and the Common Good] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Organizing%20-%20People%2C%20Power%2C%20Change.pdf Organizing: People, Power, Change] | |||
* [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/NEA19010_Civic%20Academies%20Toolkit_v17HR%20%282%29.pdf Civic Academies Toolkit] | |||
'''Bibliography:''' [https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Organizing%20Early%20Childhood%20and%20Adult%20Educators.pdf Advocating for Early Childhood and Adult Educators] | |||
'''Communication:''' [https://www.nea.org/about-nea/contact-us Contact form] | |||
=== [https://nationalempnetwork.org/ National Emerging Museum Professionals Network] === | === [https://nationalempnetwork.org/ National Emerging Museum Professionals Network] === |
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Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources
This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums. Assembled and maintained by the DLF Labor Working Group.
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Each entry below includes at least some of the following elements:
- Group/campaign name
- Issues covered
- Initiatives
- Resources
- Bibliography
- Communication channels
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A Better Guggenheim
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, organizing
Resources:
- 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.
Bibliography:
- Letter to the Board (June 2020)
- Call for Resignations (September 2020)
Communication:
AFSCME
Issues: unions
Initiatives: Cultural Workers United
Resources:
- COVID-19 resources
- Cultural Workers United FAQ
- AFSCME Information Highway
- Jobs We Do: Library Workers
Bibliography:
Communication:
AFT Academics
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
- 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)
Bibliography:
- National COVID-19 Response Statement
- Adjunct Faculty Survey Report
- Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19
- Uprising Solidarity Statement
Communication:
Akron Art Museum Accountability
Issues: organizing, signal boosting
Communication: Twitter
American Alliance of Museums
Issues: hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity
Resources:
- Salary Negotiation
- National Museum Salary Survey
- Equitable Hiring Practices
- Resources for the Museum Industry to Discuss the Issue of Unpaid Internships
Bibliography:
- For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries
- Mutual Aid in a Time of Crisis (August 2020)
Communication:
American Association of University Professors
Issues: temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography: Reports & Publications
Communication:
American Historical Association
Issues: hiring, temporary position, unions
Resources:
- Guidelines for First-Round Interviews (2019)
- Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty (2011)
Bibliography: Statement on Right to Engage in Collective Bargaining (2019)
Communication:
American Library Association Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA)
Issues: advancement, salaries, unions
Initiatives:
- 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
Resources:
- Salary surveys
- Occupation fact sheets
- Occupation resources
- Pay Equity
- Salary Negotiation
- Start a Union
Bibliography:
- 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
Communication:
- Facebook (ALA-APA)
- Facebook (National Library Workers Day)
- Facebook (Library Support Staff Certification Program)
Archives & Records Association (UK)
Issues: salaries, volunteers
Initiatives: Pay Review 2018
Resources:
- Volunteering in Collections Care Best Practices Guidelines & Research Report
- ARA Pay Review Group Summary (August 2018)
- ARA Pay Review Group Freelance Summary (August 2018)
Archival Workers Emergency Fund
Issues: COVID-19, funding, temporary positions
Initiatives:
Resources: Resources for Displaced Archival Workers
Bibliography: Open Letter to the Archival Community re: Police Brutality
Communication: Twitter
Archive Staff Impact During COVID-19
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: Tracking spreadsheet
Archivist Salary Advocacy
Issues: salaries
Resources: Salary Spreadsheet
Communication: Google Group
Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries
Resources: COVID-19 Resources
Bibliography: New Job Submission Policy
Communication:
ARLIS/NA Advocacy & Public Policy Committee
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries
Initiatives: News Alerts (see “Workplace” section)
Bibliography: Statement on Staff Reductions in Art Museum Libraries and Visual Resources Collections (December 2013)
Art + Museum Transparency
Issues: internships, salaries, unions
Resources:
- Salary Spreadsheet (began 2019)
- Internship Spreadsheet (began 2019)
- Unions for All: Unionizing Museum and Arts Workers
Communication:
Artists for Workers
Issues: organizing, signal boosting
Initiatives:
- Guggenheim projections
- NewMuseum.net
Communication:
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, funding, unions
Initiatives:
- #AAPI2020
- AAPIs Are #EssentialNotExpendable
- IAPALA's COVID-19 Community Fund
- Count Us In. Take the 2020 Census.
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Association of Art Museum Directors
Issues: internships, salaries
Initiatives: Annual salary survey
Bibliography: Association of Art Museum Directors Passes Resolution Urging Art Museums to Provide Paid Internships (June 20, 2019)
Communication:
Australian Library and Information Association
Issues: mentoring, salaries, temporary positions, volunteers
Initiatives:
Resources:
- 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)
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
BIPOC Library Residents Mutual Aid
Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid, temporary positions
Initiatives:
- 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)
Bibliography: COVID Residents Open Letter
Campaign for a Better MIT
Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives: Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers
Communication:
Canadian Association of University Teachers / Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (CAUT)
Issues: COVID-19, unions
Initiatives: Librarians' and Archivists' Committee
Resources:
- CAUT Guidelines for Re-opening Canada’s Universities and Colleges (May 2020)
- COVID-19 and the Academic Workplace: Questions & Answers
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Coalition on the Academic Workforce
Issues: temporary positions
Collections on Contract
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives:
Communication:
Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives:
- advocacy toolkit
- network for contingent workers
- How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work
Resources:
Bibliography:
- Attendee posts
- Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)
Communication:
Community of Industrial Relations Librarians
Issues: unions
Resources:
Bibliography: Committee of University Industrial Relations Libraries (April 1971)
Communication:
Creating National Library Worker Union
Issues: organizing, unions Initiatives:
Crowd Consortium
Issues: volunteers
Resources: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015)
Culture Workers Education Center
Issues: internships, organizing, mutual aid, salaries & wages, signal boosting, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources: Resources
Communication:
CUNY Adjunct Project
Issues: organizing, temporary positions
Initiatives:
- Current Initiatives
- Full and Fair Funding
- $7k for Adjuncts
- Toward a Just Contract
- Tuition payments/permanent tuition remission for GC doctoral students
Resources:
Bibliography: Toward a Just Contract, Vol. 1 (June 2017)
Communication:
Death to Museums
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: Dialogue series
Communication:
Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
Issues: gender equity, organizing, student loan debt, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
- 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?
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Staff Action
Issues: organizing
Initiatives:
Resources: Q&A: Staff Satisfaction Surveys and upcoming Town Halls
Communication:
Dismantle the National WWII Museum
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, organizing
Bibliography: * Open letter
- An Open Letter to The National WWII Museum's EXECUTIVE team & board of trustees
- Demands
- Testimonials
Communication:
DLF Labor Working Group
Issues: COVID-19, hiring, salaries, temporary positions
Resources:
- “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
Communication:
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
Issues: COVID-19, organizing
Initiatives: Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 / Organice su lugar de trabajo contra el COVID-19
Resources: Orientation Guide
EveryLibrary Institute
Issues: COVID-19, funding
Initiatives: Help a Library Worker Out (HALO) Fund
Communication:
Fair Museum Jobs
Issues: COVID-19, hiring, internships, salaries, volunteers
Initiatives: Our Campaigns - a list of the organisations we’ve contacted, why contacted them, and how they responded
Resources: Resources
Bibliography:
- 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
Communication:
Front of House in Museums (FoHMuseums)
Issues: COVID-19, temporary positions, valuing labor
Initiatives:
Resources: Front of House in Museums Survey 2019
Bibliography:
Communication:
- #FoHMuseums
- Contact Form
Gender Equity in Museums Movement
Issues: gender equity
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 (University of Michigan)
Issues: COVID-19, disability, gender equity, organizing, unions
Initiatives:
- GEO In Person/Hybrid Work Concerns
- Strike for a Safe and Just Pandemic Response
- COVID-19 Actions
- Stand with MDining Workers
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography:
- 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
Communication:
Graduate Employees' Organization at UIUC
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions
Resources:
- COVID-19 Resources
- Immigrants' Resources
- GEO Cross-Campus Mutual Aid Solidarity Fund
- Strategies for Socially Anxious Social Activists
- New Member Orientation Packet
- Bargaining Basics
Bibliography: Member Communications
Communication:
Green Book for Libraries
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network
Resources:
Communication: Contact Form
Guggenheim Union (IUOE Local 30)
Issues: unions
Initiatives: #DoBetterGuggenheim
Communication: Twitter
Hiring Librarians
Issues: hiring, salaries
Initiatives:
- Oh Hey, Share Your Salary Info Today! (August 19, 2019)
- Hiring Librarians survey
- Job hunter’s survey & follow-up interviews
Resources:
- Salary Spreadsheet
- Hiring Librarians' Library Interview Question "Database"
- State of the Library Job Market (October 10, 2015)
Humanities Technology (UCLA)
Issues: internships, temporary positions
Resources: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015) || ||
Communication:
IAM MAM
Issues: organizing, unions
Initiatives: Union drive at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Communication:
The Incluseum
Initiatives:
- When You Worked at a Museum
- & https://incluseum.com/2020/04/27/survey-on-inclusion-in-museums/ Survey on Inclusion in Museums
Resources:
Communication:
Indebted Cultural Workers
Issues: salaries & wages, signal boosting
Resources: Indebted Cultural Workers: Calculate your salary
Communication: Twitter
Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, salaries, unions Initiatives: Essential Workers, Essential Rights
Resources:
Bibliography:
- 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
Communication:
Information Maintainers
Initiatives: advocacy toolkit
Bibliography: Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019)
Communication: Google Group
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (UC Berkeley)
Issues: COVID-19, internships, organizing, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
- 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
Resources:
- Labor Contracts Database
- Labor Center Workshops & Leadership Schools
- Labor Summer Internships
- COVID-19 Research and Resources
- Replication Data
Bibliography:
- Policy Briefs
- Pocket Guides
- CPER Journal
- Working Papers
- Scholarly Publications
- Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
- All publications
Communication:
Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems
Warning: animated interface
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives:
- Anti-Museum Reading Group
- I'm at a Museum During a Pandemic! Worksheet & Form
- NYC Museum Re-Opening Spreadsheet
Communication:
Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee
Issues: organizing, unions
Initiatives: wall-to-wall union drive
Communication:
Labor Notes
Issues: unions
Resources:
- 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)
Communication:
LACUNY
Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid
Initiatives: LACUNY Mutual Aid Network
Bibliography:
Libraries for All STL
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: We Need Libraries For All: Demand Black Lives Matter at St Louis County Libraries
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
LibrariesResist
Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid
Resources:
- Labor, Staffing, Training (filed under "Management" 🤔)
- Resisting in Library Work
- Health and Pandemics
Communication:
Library Salaries Inequity
Issues: salaries
Resources: resource list
Make the Road New York
Issues: COVID-19, organizing
Initiatives:
- Housing & Environmental Justice
- Workplace Justice
- Community Organizing
- TGNCIQ Justice
- Policing and Criminal Justice
- Health Justice
- Education
- Civic Engagement
- Leadership Development
Resources:
- Education, Health, & Legal Services
- Our COVID-19 Response: Updates, Resources and Know Your Rights Information
Bibliography:
- 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]
Communication:
MCAccountable
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, organizing
Initiatives:
- Our Collective Letter to the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contermporary Art Chicago (July 2020)
- An Update from MCAccountable (August 2020)
Communication:
MFA Boston Mutual Aid Fund Steering Committee
Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid, organizing
Initiatives: MFA Boston Staff Mutual Aid Fund
Resources: How to start a museum mutual aid fund
Bibliography: Open Source Solidarity: Starting a Mutual Aid Fund at Your Museum
Communication: Email
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
Issues: mentoring, mutual aid
Initiatives:
Communication:
MOCAD Resistance
Issues: organizing, temporary positions
Bibliography:
- 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
Communication:
Modern Language Association
Issues: hiring, salaries, temporary positions
Initiatives:
- Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
- Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE MPEG Local 700)
Issues: organizing, unions Initiatives:Education
Resources:
- Coronavirus Information
- Mental Health Resources
- Coronavirus FAQs
- Organizing
- Employers
- Wages, Contracts, and Holidays
Bibliography:
- CineMontage (journal)
- Post, Coast to Coast (podcast)
- Post, Proud: Organizing with the Editors Guild (documentary short)
Communication:
Movement for Black Lives
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
- Project 2024
- Economic Justice policy platform
- National Demands for COVID-19
- Week of Action
- Virtual Events
- Petition
Resources:
Communication:
Museum Detox
Issues: COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network
Initiatives:
- Museum Detox Survey
- Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (application instructions)
- Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (GoFundMe)
Resources: Coronavirus Covid-19: Information and guidance
Communication:
Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: tracking spreadsheet
Museum Workers Speak
Issues: COVID-19, funding, mutual aid
Initiatives:
- Museum Workers Relief Fund
- Museum Workers Relief Fund (Bonfire shop)
- 2020 Museums & Race Imagine a [Radical Future virtual conference]
Resources: Resources
Bibliography: Statement (May 1, 2020)
Communication:
Music Library Association
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: MLA Emergency Relief Fund
Resources: MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics (2009)
Communication:
National Council on Public History
Issues: hiring
Resources: Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019)
Communication:
National Education Association (NEA) Center for Organizing
Issues: organizing, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography: Advocating for Early Childhood and Adult Educators
Communication: Contact form
National Emerging Museum Professionals Network
Issues: hiring, salaries
Initiatives:
Communication:
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Workers
Issues: unions
Communication: Twitter
New England Archivists
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives: New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study (January 2017)
Bibliography: NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018)
Communication:
New Museum Union (UAW Local 2110)
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography:
Communication:
Northwest Archivists
Issues: internships
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography:
Communication
OrganizingLIS
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, unions
Communication: Twitter
Philadelaphia Museum of Art Union (with AFSCME DC 47)
Issues: organizing, unions
Initiatives:
Resources: Frequently Asked Questions
Bibliography:
- 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
Communication:
Postdoctoral Laborers Group
Issues: temporary positions
Resources: Postdoctoral Bill of Rights (April 9, 2019)
Communication: Google Group
Precarity in Libraries
Issues: temporary positions
Resources:
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication: Twitter
Progressive Librarians Guild
Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions
Communication:
Protect Library Workers
Issues: COVID-19, organizing
Initiatives:
- #closethelibraries
- #ProtectLibraryWorkers & communities: Don't reopen libraries until it's safe
- Tracking Library Layoffs
- Weekly Course of Action
Resources:
- Safe Reopening Resources
- Tips for Productive Advocacy
- Templates for Letters, Recommendations, Petitions
- Mutual Aid & Other Resources
Communication:
Public Higher Education Workers
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions
Bibliography: Public Higher Education Workers (PHEW) Foundational Principles
Communication: Twitter
Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Issues: COVID-19, union
Initiatives:
- 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
Resources:
Bibliography:
- Statement: Justice for George Floyd
- Statements and Resolutions
- Questions and Answers about the “Fiscal Emergency”
- Special Alerts
Communication:
Society of American Archivists Accessibility & Disability Section
Issues: accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions
Resources:
- Archivists at Home
- Inclusive interviewing and recruitment practices for people with disabilities
- Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities
Communication:
Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness
Issues: salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt
Initiatives: Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Society of American Archivists Council
Issues: internships, volunteers
Initiatives:
Resources:
- Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education (January 2014)
- Practices for Volunteers in Archives (June 2014)
Bibliography: Only Paid Internships to Be Posted to the SAA Career Center (July 9, 2019)
Society of American Archivists Issues & Advocacy Section
Issues: salaries, temporary positions
Initiatives: Temporary Labor Survey
Resources: Advocacy Toolkit
Bibliography: Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019
Communication:
Society of American Archivists Students and New Archives Professionals Section
Issues: internships, hiring
Initiatives:
- Academic Internship Survey
- #snaprt chats: Topics include barriers to entry into the archival profession; erasure of archival labor; labor issues in archives
Communication:
Society of American Archivists Women Archivists Section
Issues: gender equity, salaries
Resources: The 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey: Initial Results and Analysis
Society of California Archivists
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives: Task Force on Labor Issues within the Profession (2019-2021)
Bibliography: Statement in Support of Temporary Archivists at UCLA
Communication:
Society of Southwest Archivists
Issues: salaries
Resources: Archives Regional Salary Research
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Tactical Tech
Issues: organizing
Initiatives:
- Exposing the Invisible
- "Exposing the Invisible" Investigating Institute
- Data Detox Kit
- Our Data Our Selves
Resources:
Bibliography: Investigate (case studies)
Communication:
Tech Workers Coalition
Issues: unions
Resources:
- Learning Club
- Local chapters (Austin, Berlin, Boston, DC, LA, London, NYC, PDX, San Diego, Seattle, SF Bay Area, South Florida)
Communication:
UAW Local 2110
Issues: organizing, unions
Resources:
Bibliography: Getting Serious: Organizing White Collar Workers (Winter 2015)
UC-AFT Unit 17 (UC Librarians)
Issues: unions
Initiatives: Precarity, academic freedom, professional development, working conditions, housing, and the next contract
Resources:
- Our website (and blog) chronicles our campaign and organizing with tools for engagement around our contract
- Bargaining Timeline
- Glossary of Common Terms
Communication:
- Blog
- Media coverage
- Twitter (@UCLibrarians)
- Twitter @UCAFT]
UCLA Six (Temporary Librarians)
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives: Open Letter (June 2018)
Bibliography:
- UCLA Library’s reliance on temporary workers is inefficient, unethical (July 29, 2018)
- SAA Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six (August 2019)
Communication: TinyLetter
United Academics
Issues: organizing, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
- Why a Union?
- The Facts about Faculty and Spending at UVM (April 2018)
Bibliography: Resolutions
Communication:
University of California COLA Movement
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, salaries
Initiatives:
- 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
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography:
- Why $1,412
- Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Whitepaper
- No Place Like Home: Affordable Housing in Crisis - Santa Cruz County, CA
Communication:
United Academics of the University of Oregon
Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions
Resources:
Bibliography:
- We Need Our Librarians! (May 15, 2020)
- United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface (November 4, 2016)
Communication:
- The Duck & Cover (newsletter)
United Campus Workers of Virginia
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions
Initiatives:
- #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
Resources:
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions
Initiatives:
- 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
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography:
Communication:
United Museum Workers
Issues: organizing, unions
Initiatives: United Museum Workers Organizing Campaign
Communication:
University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA)
Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Resources:
- Renewing a Term-Limited Contract
- Employment Equity Guide
- CAUT handbook for new faculty - Negotiating starting salaries
- Negotiating a probationary position
Communication:
University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA 9119 (UPTE-CWA 9119)
Issues: organizing, unions
Resources: Handbook for Fair Pay
Communication:
We Here
Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography: up//root
Communication:
WITNESS
Issues: COVID-19, organizing
Initiatives:
Resources:
- COVID-19 Response Hub
- WITNESS Library
- Activists' Guide to Archiving Video
- Video as Evidence Field Guide
Communication:
- Contact Form + Newsletter
- Flickr
- WITNESS Twitter
- WITNESS Media Lab Twitter
- WITNESS YouTube
- Training Videos YouTube
Workers for Workers
Issues: organizing, temporary positions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Communication:
You Ought to Be Ashamed
Issues: hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers
Initiatives: job posting reviews
Communication: blog