AFSCME Council 93 and MIT Librarians organizing union drive

According to the organizing drives website, more than 100 librarians at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are organizing with AFSCME council 93 to form a union in the university's libraries.

Organizers are requesting that supporters sign their petition requesting the library's director respect the unionization effort.

Goals of organizers are, per the organizing website:

• Negotiating higher salary for staff & fair compensation for the level of work being done
• Developing promotion paths for all staff
• Advocating for term positions for temps who are stuck in such positions for too long, and a limit to the use of term positions for long-term work
• Eliminating the practice of competition for ratings and thus raises for staff
• Reviewing the benefits package to compare with local universities
• Requiring managerial training for all people managing any FTE
• Limiting call hours for infrastructure and enterprise folks so they are not defacto on call 24/7
• Closure with full pay from 12/24-1/1
• Humane closing/lateness/absence policies for snow closures and T failures
• More will be added as they develop feedback from across all departments within the libraries