Goshen Library (NY) opts to fight union

 

GOSHEN- A push by the employees of the Goshen Public Library to form a union will head to a formal vote after Catherine Lemmer, the library’s director, notified the organizing committee in a letter that the library declines to voluntarily recognize the union.

Lisa Taylor, a circulation page at the library, is one of three workers leading the group’s organizing committee.  Taylor spoke about her experience at the library and said she and her coworkers wanted to form a union to gain a voice on the job and stability in the workplace that comes from a union contract.

Since the library declined to recognize the union, the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) has filed for an election with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).  However, before a vote can take place, a dispute about which job titles should be included and excluded from the proposed bargaining unit must first be resolved.