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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:

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• 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:

• Contact form
• Instagram Submissions

AFSCME

Issues: unions

Initiatives: Cultural Workers United

Resources:

• COVID-19 resources
• Cultural Workers United FAQ
• AFSCME Information Highway
• Jobs We Do: Library Workers

Bibliography:

• Why Organize?
• Weekly legislative reports

Communication:

• Blog
• Facebook (AFSCME)
• Facebook (AFSCME)
• Instagram
• Twitter (CWU)
• YouTube

AFT Academics

Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions

Initiatives:

• Solidarity Academy
• Organizer Trainings

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:

• Facebook
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Twitter

American Association of University Professors

Issues: temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

• One Faculty
• AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress

Resources:

• Resources on Contingent Positions
• Resources on Collective Bargaining

Bibliography: Reports & Publications

Communication:

• AAUP Updates
• Facebook
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Twitter

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)
• Twitter

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:

• Become an #AWEfund Storyteller
• COVID-19 Impact on Archival Workers Survey

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:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• Twitter

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:

• Medium
• Twitter

Artists for Workers

Issues: organizing, signal boosting

Initiatives:

• Guggenheim projections
• NewMuseum.net

Communication:

• Email
• Secure Drop & alternatives

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:

• Contact form
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube

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:

• Facebook
• Twitter

Australian Library and Information Association

Issues: mentoring, salaries, temporary positions, volunteers

Initiatives:

• Advocacy campaigns
• Certified Professionals

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:

• ALIA Groups
• Elists
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• #abetterMIT
• Facebook
• Instagram
• News
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• RSS
• Twitter

Coalition on the Academic Workforce

Issues: temporary positions

Resources: 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

Issues: temporary positions

Initiatives:

• Survey
• Accepting submissions: personal narratives, resource reviews, advice/questions

Communication:

• Blog
• Twitter

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:

• 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

Bibliography:

• Attendee posts
• Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)

Communication:

• #IMLSLaborForum
• #CollectiveResponsibility

Community of Industrial Relations Librarians

Issues: unions

Resources:

• Member Libraries
• Member Directory

Bibliography: Committee of University Industrial Relations Libraries (April 1971)

Communication:

• Email List
• Join/Contact

Creating National Library Worker Union

Issues: organizing, unions Initiatives:

• Petition

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:

• Programs
• Services: fiscal sponsorship, private meeting space, visibility

Resources: Resources

Communication:

• Contact form
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram

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:

• Teaching Resources

Bibliography: Toward a Just Contract, Vol. 1 (June 2017)

Communication:

• Blog
• Email
• Facebook
• Listserv
• Twitter

Death to Museums

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives: Dialogue series

Communication:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube

Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO

Issues: gender equity, organizing, student loan debt, temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

• Legislative and Policy Priorities
• The Professional Union Initiative

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:

• Blog
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• Twitter

Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Staff Action

Issues: organizing

Initiatives:

• DIA Staff Action: Share Your Story
• Independent Staff Engagement Survey 2020

Resources: Q&A: Staff Satisfaction Surveys and upcoming Town Halls

Communication:

• Email
• Instagram
• medium
• Twitter

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:

• Email
• Instagram

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:

• Google Group
• #DLFLabor

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:

• Contact
• Twitter

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:

• Contact Form
• Twitter

Front of House in Museums (FoHMuseums)

Issues: COVID-19, temporary positions, valuing labor

Initiatives:

• Campaigning
• Advocacy
• Celebrating

Resources: Front of House in Museums Survey 2019

Bibliography:

• What's in a Coffee?
• A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Reopening the Museum

Communication:

• #FoHMuseums
• Contact Form
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• #GEMMuseum
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter

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:

• Blog
• Email
• Facebook
• Solidarity Request Form
• Twitter

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:

• Contact form
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

Green Book for Libraries

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network

Resources:

• Academic Libraries
• Public Libraries
• Special/Government Libraries
• School Libraries

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:

• Blog

IAM MAM

Issues: organizing, unions

Initiatives: Union drive at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Communication:

• Email
• Facebook
• IAM Organizer
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• Resources
• Tools & Publications

Communication:

• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• FAQ
• Testimonials: COVID-19
• Graduate Worker 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:

• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• Email
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems

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Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives:

• Anti-Museum Reading Group
• I'm at a Museum During a Pandemic! Worksheet & Form
• NYC Museum Re-Opening Spreadsheet

Communication:

• Email
• Instagram

Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee

Issues: organizing, unions

Initiatives: wall-to-wall union drive

Communication:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• Blog
• Facebook
• Magazine Archives
• Twitter

LACUNY

Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid

Initiatives: LACUNY Mutual Aid Network

Bibliography:

• LACUNY Statement on COVID-19
• Letter of Support and Solidarity

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:

• Facebook
• Medium
• Twitter

LibrariesResist

Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid

Resources:

• Labor, Staffing, Training (filed under "Management" 🤔)
• Resisting in Library Work
• Health and Pandemics

Communication:

• Email
• Facebook
• Feedback form
• Twitter

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]

All publications

Communication:

• Email list
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube

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:

• Email
• Instagram

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:

• MARAC Mutual Aid Network
• Mentoring Program

Communication:

• Blog
• Facebook
• MARAC Steering Committee Proposal Form
• Twitter

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:

• Contact form
• Email
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Mailing list
• MLA Commons
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Staff contacts
• Twitter
• YouTube

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:

• Policy Platforms
• Mutual Aid Resources
• Resources on Safety and Infiltration (.zip folder)

Communication:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube

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:

• Blog
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Vimeo

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:

• Email
• Twitter
• Facebook

Music Library Association

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives: MLA Emergency Relief Fund

Resources: MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics (2009)

Communication:

• Blog
• Facebook
• Listserv
• Twitter
• Vimeo

National Council on Public History

Issues: hiring

Resources: Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019)

Communication:

• Facebook
• Twitter

National Education Association (NEA) Center for Organizing

Issues: organizing, unions

Initiatives:

• Winter Organizing Campaign
• Higher Education Organizing

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:

• Range on Museum Job Postings Letter Writing Campaign
• Help Make Museums More Equitable

Communication:

• Blog
• Journal
• Facebook

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:

• Facebook
• Need Help with an Advocacy Issue?
• Twitter

New Museum Union (UAW Local 2110)

Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions

Initiatives:

• New Museum Union files charges against the New Museum
• Events

Resources:

• FAQ
• Documents

Bibliography:

• Communiqués
• Letters of Support

Communication:

• Contact
• Email
• Instagram
• Twitter

Northwest Archivists

Issues: internships

Initiatives:

• NWA Archivist-in-Residence
• Survey: The Value of Archivists in the Northwest

Resources:

• Northwest Archivists (NWA): Policy for Acceptable Job Postings

Bibliography:

• NWA Policy for Acceptable Job Postings

Communication

• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter

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:

• Union Election
• Share Your Voice

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:

• Email
• Instagram
• Twitter

Postdoctoral Laborers Group

Issues: temporary positions

Resources: Postdoctoral Bill of Rights (April 9, 2019)

Communication: Google Group

Precarity in Libraries

Issues: temporary positions

Resources:

• Data set: Partnership Job Board job postings
• Literature Review & Bibliography

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:

• Union Library Workers
• discussion list

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:

• #LIBREV
• Twitter
• Vimeo

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:

• Union Fireside Chats
• Here Are the Facts ABotu the Fiscal Emergency
• CARES Act Commission

Bibliography:

• Statement: Justice for George Floyd
• Statements and Resolutions
• Questions and Answers about the “Fiscal Emergency”
• Special Alerts

Communication:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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:

• Email
• Twitter

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:

• Blog

Society of American Archivists Council

Issues: internships, volunteers

Initiatives:

• SAA Update: Advocating For Archivist Pay
• Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six

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:

• Blog
• Report an advocacy issue

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:

• Ask an Archivist
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Western Archivists Listerv

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:

• Facebook
• Forums
• News Blog
• Twitter

Tactical Tech

Issues: organizing

Initiatives:

• Exposing the Invisible
• "Exposing the Invisible" Investigating Institute
• Data Detox Kit
• Our Data Our Selves

Resources:

• Exposing the Invisible: The Kit
• Explore
• Educate

Bibliography: Investigate (case studies)

Communication:

• Contact page
• Email
• Facebook
• Mastodon
• Newsletter
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Medium
• Newsletter
• Slack
• Twitter

UAW Local 2110

Issues: organizing, unions

Resources:

• Member Resources
• UAW Region 9A COVID-19 Resource Page

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
• Facebook
• 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:

• Campaigns
• Non-Tenure Track Faculty Caucus

Resources:

• Why a Union?
• The Facts about Faculty and Spending at UVM (April 2018)

Bibliography: Resolutions

Communication:

• Facebook
• Staff contacts

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:

• Email
• Event emails
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Social accounts by campus
• Twitter

United Academics of the University of Oregon

Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions

Resources:

• Information for Librarians
• UA Bargaining 101
• We Are Building Our Union

Bibliography:

• We Need Our Librarians! (May 15, 2020)
• United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface (November 4, 2016)

Communication:

• Facebook
• The Duck & Cover (newsletter)
• Twitter

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:

• Using UVA's Endowment to Fight Austerity
• Organizing 101 training

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:

• Contact form
• Email
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Soundcloud
• Twitter
• YouTube

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:

• UE Statements
• Labor's Untold Story (1955)
• UE Political Action Updates

Communication:

• Email
• Facebook
• Locals
• Twitter

United Museum Workers

Issues: organizing, unions

Initiatives: United Museum Workers Organizing Campaign

Communication:

• Instagram
• Talk to an organizer
• Twitter

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:

• Blog
• Twitter

University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA 9119 (UPTE-CWA 9119)

Issues: organizing, unions

Resources: Handbook for Fair Pay

Communication:

• Email
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube

We Here

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19

Initiatives:

• Community School
• COVID-19 Relief Grants for We Here's Black Members

Resources:

• Join closed groups
• Submit a Job

Bibliography: up//root

Communication:

• Blog
• Instagram
• Twitter

WITNESS

Issues: COVID-19, organizing

Initiatives:

• WITNESS Media Lab
• Video Archiving

Resources:

• COVID-19 Response Hub
• WITNESS Library
• Activists' Guide to Archiving Video
• Video as Evidence Field Guide

Communication:

• Contact Form + Newsletter
• Facebook
• Flickr
• WITNESS Twitter
• WITNESS Media Lab Twitter
• WITNESS YouTube
• Training Videos YouTube

Workers for Workers

Issues: organizing, temporary positions

Initiatives:

• #workersforworkers Survey
• Solidarity Fund for Fired FB Contingent Workers

Resources:

• Stories
• Retaliation

Communication:

• #workersforworkers
• Twitter

You Ought to Be Ashamed

Issues: hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers

Initiatives: job posting reviews

Communication: blog