NEIUPI

Voting on the bylaw changes began January 23 and continued until noon today (Jan 31). The results are as follows:

95.5% Yes
4.5% No

The NEIU Chapter Bylaws stand revised. A revised copy will be posted to our chapter website.

Thanks to all who participated in the vote.

From the NY Times…sorry to pull out a quote from the article…but this one just makes me really unhappy…

“A lot of libraries are atrocious,” Mr. Pezzanite said. “Their policies are all about job security. That’s why the profession is nervous about us. You can go to a library for 35 years and never have to do anything and then have your retirement. We’re not running our company that way. You come to us, you’re going to have to work.”

Read on at your own risk…

September 26, 2010
Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries
By DAVID STREITFELD

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system.

Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired for the first time to run a system in a relatively healthy city, setting off an intense and often acrimonious debate about the role of outsourcing in a ravaged economy.

There is no bargaining session scheduled this week but we are having membership meetings and the tables in Village Square. John Murphy, former NEIU chapter president and former Local 4100 vice president, is recruiting retirees to help us with the tables this week. We are going to distribute info on the latest legislative actions as well as rallying our members. If you haven’t spent some time at the time please consider joining your colleagues for an hour or so this wednesday or thursday. Chat with the retirees and find out if life is better after you’ve done your time at NEIU. To sign up for table “sitting”, follow the directions below: The tables are set up on Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 to 3:00 pm.

Instructions: go to http://upi-tabling.genbook.com

1) Click on the “UPI Table Volunteer” link
2) Click on the “No preference” link
3) Select the date you‘d like to volunteer
4) Click on the time you’d like to volunteer –(this will automatically register you for 1 hour)
5) Enter your details as prompted—(your phone number must include an area code)
6) Confirm the appointment

Our next membership meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, January 27 from noon to 1:15 pm in a location to be determined. The meeting will be repeated the following day, Thursday, January 28 from 1:40 – 2:50 pm in the lower library classroom.

Hope to see you soon.