At our December 17th session LEO-GLAM received the first proposals passed to us from admin including Special Conferences (meetings between the Union and the Employer), Term of Agreement (length of the contract), Scope of Agreement (stipulating when particular articles may be renegotiated and what outside the contract may be enforced), and Printing/Distribution of the Contract. We were able to reach a TA on the latter. Click through to read the full recap.

We will return to bargaining in the new year, on January 7th, 2022 and invite members to join us.

December 10th marked the first bargaining session at which LEO-GLAM passed proposals, and welcomed members to join as observers at the table and actively participate in our caucus sessions. Click through for more details, and join us next Friday for another bargaining session.

We had strong turnout at our first LEO-GLAM Bargaining Kick-off event, and spent our first day at the table getting to know each other and giving some opening statements. Read the full post for details and get ready to join us for bargaining on Friday!

Our LEO-GLAM members overwhelmingly voted to adopt our bargaining platform and elected a slate of representatives to be our Bargaining Team. LEO Lecturers also voted to amend the union constitution to add LEO-GLAM to the campus committee structure; we will now work to draft internal bylaws and welcome members to be part of that work.

Our GLAM organizing effort began in earnest during the summer of 2020, while many librarians, archivists, and curators (LACs) were working remotely and concerned about the university’s reopening plans for the Fall 2020 semester. Our effort received an unexpected boost that summer when the Regents voted 6-1 to recognize new bargaining units by “card check” rather than requiring an election.