The Toronto Public Library Workers Union (TPLWU) CUPE 4948 in Legal
The 2400 members of the Toronto Public Library Workers Union, Local 4948, (CUPE) will be in a legal strike position at 12:01am Monday, November 9th.
With an overwhelming strike vote mandate of 86 per cent, the union is asking the Toronto Public Library to maintain and strengthen an already highly-skilled workforce, with more full-time jobs and fairer treatment of part-time workers, to ensure that Toronto Public Library remains one of the finest public library systems in the world.
“Our vision is one of well-trained staff with good jobs and strong connections to the neighbourhoods they serve and libraries with strong collections, programs and services that are professionally delivered and attuned to the community. Good jobs with decent benefits are an investment in our city,” said Maureen O’Reilly, spokesperson for the local.
“The Toronto Public Library has a wonderful reputation for offering a wide variety of specialized collections and innovative community-based services and programs to library users,” said O’Reilly. “But recent trends at the Toronto Public Library indicate a shift to a more American-style library system – with an emphasis on cutting costs by relying upon more and more part-time work and self-service check-out machines.”
