"...choosing not to do something that is burning you out and isn’t supported isn’t a betrayal of your patrons. If this work is that important, it’s your institution that has betrayed patrons by not adequately supporting you."
@librarianmer.bsky.social 📚
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Matthew Noe
...something to do with the Governor calling all of the Board members and the President over the weekend to pressure them to make a deal. Weird how right after last night's Board meeting, we got much better offers. Ridiculous it had to take this long.
Happy March 31st
I remember, even as a librarian, interviewing for a job where the university librarian said, "if people want to have families, they shouldn't go into tenure track positions." And I stupidly decided to work there!!! It was predictably a nightmare job.
My institution, Portland Community College, is in week 3 of a strike after 11 months of bargaining. My colleague friend wrote this powerful essay depicting the financial precarity of our faculty, which is of course a national trend. charlottedr.substack.com/p/behind-the...
@pccffap.bsky.social
Our bargaining team is completely stunned by the lack of urgency of the PCC management team. We just learned they will not send us a response to our proposal until after the board meets at 5pm. The board has not met in over a week. Spring term hangs in the balance. WTF is going on.
We did it @pccffap.bsky.social and we will never be the same. I am so inspired by the talent, committment, and resolve of my PCC colleagues and the students who stood with us every step of the way 💙💙💙
Megan Savage
PCCFFAP
Meredith Farkas
Meredith Farkas
We won!!!! Our strike won!!! This tentative agreement is a sea change from all the offers we received prior to yesterday. I'm exhausted (since the tentative agreement came past my bedtime and then I was way too excited to sleep), but so happy to be going back to work today. I wonder if it had...
