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LEO-GLAM Bargaining Kicks Off on January 15, 2025!

Librarians, Archivists and Curators (LACs) will head back to the bargaining table beginning on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 to negotiate our second contract on behalf of the GLAM bargaining unit. While negotiations are taking place via Zoom that day, we invite LEO-GLAM members as well as union siblings, allies and community members to join us for a noon hour kickoff rally on the Ann Arbor Diag, where we’ll be providing hot cocoa and hearing from speakers about our issues.

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UPDATE: University of Michigan-Dearborn CASL Cuts

Read updates on CASL cuts at UM-Dearborn.

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Member Spotlight: Graham Dethmers

This month we’re spotlighting LEO-GLAM member Graham Dethmers, a Metadata Analyst at the HathiTrust Digital Library.

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Course Cuts and Faculty Layoffs Threaten Student Success and U-M Dearborn’s Future

UM-D faculty and students are facing unprecedented course size increases, course cuts, and section consolidations, resulting in full and partial layoffs of LEO non-tenure track faculty just weeks before the start of the Winter semester. Another round of course cancellations and layoffs is expected in early December. Changes, implemented by the Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (CASL) without warning or faculty input, have bypassed established faculty governance, ignored the Union contract, and hurt students.