Academic Librarians Seeking Equity Through Unionization

 "Academic Librarians Seeking Equity Through Unionization"..by Nancy K. Heather at Information Today.

"Why are we seeing this growing need for new types of protection and representation for librarians? Does this effort for equity stem from the use of nontraditional (civil service or faculty-status) employment categories? Or does it represent a breakdown in the collegial systems that have existed within academic libraries? Will this result in more collegiality? Equity? Does it create schisms within professional classes? Is traditional tenure, as a system, being challenged as a way to keep costs down and limit an institution’s responsibilities to staff? Given all of the cuts resulting from the pandemic, this movement comes at an interesting time."

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Posted On September 28, 2021