State Treasurer Clint Zweifel on Labor Day

Laor Day (3.00 / 1)

Remember folks - to Republican'ts this is exactly what's wrong with Labor.  The celebration of Labor.  And ... the celebration of the value of labor.

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by: LumberJock @ Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 02:33:46 AM UTC

I just pulled out my UAW pin and looked at it ... (0.00 / 0)

during my time in Detroit, that bastion of unionism, even city libraries were organized -- and, in my library, even managers were part of a union -- just not the same union that represented their staff members.  Hard to explain why, but library managers were represented by the UAW. Different levels of staff were represented by six different unions -- as a manager it was a big job to keep the details of all the relevant contracts straight.   The unions, though, were the reason that the librarians and clerical staff in my library had better salaries and benefits than other libraries in the area (academic and municipal) and one reason that library jobs were avidly sought after.

Years earlier, in my first professional job as a rare book librarian in an academic library where librarians had faculty status, I was eligible to join the AFT which was organizing faculty at the University.  With union help we worked on library salary equity issues and pushed a drive for a 10 month work year -- which other faculty enjoyed.  It was a good introduction to what can unions do.

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by: WillyK @ Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 03:41:27 AM UTC

Labor Day (0.00 / 0)

Way to go Clint!! Labor day is about families and the struggles it took to get where we are. Zweifel gets it!!

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by: MOVoter @ Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 14:29:16 PM UTC