A report from 2005 on the CUPE National Web site, titled “Read it and weep” observes that
“When a community loses its library, it loses a chunk of its soul. It’s knowing this that makes CUPE’s library workers show up at their jobs every day, in spite of the risks and frustrations.”
And that’s really what’s kept […]
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Almost everyone loves libraries, and our patrons love to tell us how much they appreciate our service. Unfortunately, however, library workers cannot continue to live on love alone.
Contracts were signed promising pay equity with city hall, but this promise continues to be long overdue. The shortfall in pay amounts to library workers coming in for […]
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From a friend:
“I just read the article by Kim Westad about the Library. In it Ron Brundson
was quoted as saying that pay equity could cost anywhere between 1.2 and 1.8
million dollars. I did a quick calculation using his high-end figure and
the 2006 census figures for Greater Victoria (330,088 — probably a little
high because it may […]
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