The ALA Allied Professional Association's (ALA-APA) Salaries and Status of Library Workers (SSLW) committee invites you to join them for two sessions:
• 5/1: Empowering Library Workers: Navigating Unionization in Challenging Environments
• 5/8: What Comes after Unionization: Effective Engagement with Library Workers
🔗 https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/04/ala-apa-salaries-and-status-library-workers-committee-host-two-webinars
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ALA-APA Salaries and Status of Library Workers Committee to Host Two Webinars
The ALA Allied Professional Association’s (ALA-APA) Salaries and Status of Library Workers (SSLW) committee invites you to join them for the following two sessions. Empowering Library Workers: Navigating Unionization in Challenging Environments will be held May 1st, 1:30 – 3:00pm (Central). Register now. Library workers across the country are facing numerous external challenges involving funding and governance, the alarming rate of book challenges and successful bans, threats of violence, and other crucial issues. Internally, library workers are battling low wages, long hours, and low morale.
On Thursday, January 11, the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the ALA-APA Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers will host a free virtual webinar on salary equity and library workers
🔗 https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/01/salary-equity-and-library-workers-free-webinar-january-11
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Salary Equity and Library Workers Free Webinar January 11
The ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) and the ALA-APA Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers (SSLW) will host a complimentary webinar entitled Salary Equity and Library Workers: Experiences from the Field on How to Make it Happen on January 11, 2024, 1:00 - 2:30 pm (Central); 8:00 - 9:30 pm (Sweden); and 8:00 - 9:30 am (New Zealand - next day). Register now. Historically, women have been discriminated against in a variety of ways, a primary one being compensation.
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