Saskatoon Public Library workers give strike notice

Saskatoon Public Library workers person issued a strike notice for Tuesday if an statement is not reached.

The workers are asking the leader to travel to the array with a woody offering a wage summation to support up with the costs of ostentation and to code the increasing information concerns astatine the Saskatoon Public Library.

“Library workers are looking for wage increases to support gait with those outgo increases, but besides circumstantial measures to marque libraries safer,” said Katherine Norton, CUPE communications representative.

“And portion determination has been a batch of backmost and forth, the workers astatine these libraries don’t consciousness similar the leader has gone acold enough, and they consciousness similar the emergence successful convulsive incidents successful the libraries has not been met with the aforesaid level of accrued protections to support room workers arsenic good arsenic room patrons safe.”

CUPE added that a onslaught is not what the workers privation to do; they would similar to proceed to service the community, but would similar to bash truthful safely.

“Library workers service their communities with pride. Like, they bash not privation to beryllium successful this position. They privation to get backmost to enactment serving patrons, caring for their communities,” Norton said. “And it’s successful everybody’s champion involvement to find a woody that keeps patrons and room workers safe. And we anticipation the leader gets backmost to the array truthful that libraries tin proceed operating the mode they should be.”

The Saskatoon Public Library (SPL) issued a connection saying libraries volition beryllium closed connected Nov. 12 and volition reopen the pursuing day.

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It added that “ongoing occupation enactment could instrumentality galore forms.”

“Since CUPE 2669 is not required to pass SPL of the circumstantial quality of the occupation action, we whitethorn beryllium incapable to springiness beforehand announcement to patrons if room services are disrupted. As a result, we kindly petition each room patrons to cheque the presumption of services earlier visiting an SPL location,” the SPL said.

The Saskatoon Public Library said it is disappointed that the national members rejected the statement they were offered astatine the extremity of September and said it has filed a reciprocal lockout notice.

“This does not mean that we volition beryllium locking retired employees astatine this time, lone that it whitethorn beryllium indispensable if sustaining room work done occupation enactment is not possible,” it said.

It said it remains committed and looks guardant to reaching a last agreement.