At our February 5th bargaining session, we were treated to an informative presentation about Artificial Intelligence by member and Data Visualization Librarian, Justin Joque, after which we presented a brand new article about AI to management. We continued the busy pace of passes this week, with each side presenting 6 articles at the table, and engaged in several substantive exchanges for clarification at the table. Click through to read all the details.

At our January 29th bargaining session, we had a busy day including a small group conference on the topic of term appointments, and an impressive number of articles passed (3 by management, 6 by LEO-GLAM). Among these was a brand new article that we have proposed on the topic of Security and Surveillance in GLAM workspaces. Click through to read all the details. 

At our January 22nd bargaining session, we spent our second week quite productively turning around TAs, counters, and several additional first passes. We notably had a substantive discussion about our commitment to continuing to limit the overall number of term appointments as part of our counter on Article XI: Appointments and Annual Reviews. Click through to read the details.