Labor/Resources-Mobile

From DLF Wiki
Revision as of 12:56, 8 October 2020 by Adw (talk | contribs) (Add Green Book for Libraries)

Click here to see these resources as a table

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.

Recommend a group or campaign for the list

Each entry below includes at least some of the following elements:

  • Group/campaign name
  • Issues covered
  • Initiatives
  • Resources
  • Bibliography
  • Communication channels

Click here to see these resources as a table

A Better Guggenheim

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, organizing

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

AFSCME

Issues: unions

Initiatives: Cultural Workers United

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

AFT Academics

Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

American Alliance of Museums

Issues: hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity

Resources:

Bibliography:

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:

Bibliography: Statement on Right to Engage in Collective Bargaining (2019)

Communication:

American Library Association Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA)

Issues: advancement, salaries, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

Archives & Records Association (UK)

Issues: salaries, volunteers

Initiatives: Pay Review 2018

Resources:

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:

Communication:

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, funding, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Bibliography:

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:

Bibliography:

Communication:

BIPOC Library Residents Mutual Aid

Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid, temporary positions

Initiatives:

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:

Bibliography:

Communication:

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:

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:

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)

CUNY Adjunct Project

Issues: organizing, temporary positions

Initiatives:

Resources:

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

Communication:

Death to Museums

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives: Dialogue series

Communication:

DLF Labor Working Group

Issues: COVID-19, hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Resources:

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:

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:

Gender Equity in Museums Movement

Issues: gender equity

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

Green Book for Libraries

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network

Resources:

Communication: Contact Form

Hiring Librarians

Issues: hiring, salaries

Initiatives:

Resources:

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:

Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition

Issues: COVID-19, organizing, salaries, unions Initiatives: Essential Workers, Essential Rights

Resources:

Bibliography:

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 of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems

Warning: animated interface

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives:

Communication:

Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee

Issues: organizing, unions

Initiatives: wall-to-wall union drive

Communication:

Labor Notes

Issues: unions

Resources:

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:

Communication:

Library Salaries Inequity

Issues: salaries

Resources: resource list

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:

Modern Language Association

Issues: hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Initiatives:

Bibliography:

Communication:

Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE MPEG Local 700)

Issues: organizing, unions Initiatives:Education

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

Movement for Black Lives

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Communication:

Museum Detox

Issues: COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network

Initiatives:

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:

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 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:

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:

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:

Communication: Twitter

Progressive Librarians Guild

Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions

Communication:

Protect Library Workers

Issues: COVID-19, organizing

Initiatives:

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:

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Accessibility & Disability Section

Issues: accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Resources:

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness

Issues: salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt

Initiatives: Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog

Bibliography:

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Council

Issues: internships, volunteers

Initiatives:

Resources:

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:

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:

Communication:

Tech Workers Coalition

Issues: unions

Resources:

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:

Communication:

UCLA Six (Temporary Librarians)

Issues: temporary positions

Initiatives: Open Letter (June 2018)

Bibliography:

Communication: TinyLetter

United Academics

Issues: organizing, temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Bibliography: Resolutions

Communication:

United Academics of the University of Oregon

Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions

Resources:

Bibliography:

Communication:

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)

Issues: COVID-19, organizing, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

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:

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:

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