AFSCME Local 3425

Louisville Free Public Library workers' Union

[AFSCME Local 3425 @LFPLUnion]

We need your help. Our workers have been underpaid for years, and we’re well beyond a breaking point.

View our fact sheet here: https://t.co/YK42nTw5Mb

Follow this link to contact your councilmember: https://t.co/twOS362aN8

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A statement from the executive board

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Our members have voted by an 86%-14% margin to sign on to this open letter from labor unions calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. We are happy to add our name to this list.

https://t.co/tmDrsY3PF5

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We need speakers to attend the in-person budget meeting on the third floor of City Hall, 601 W. Jefferson Street, on Tuesday, May 30, at 6pm. Speakers may sign up in-person beginning at 5:30pm on May 30. Please come tell Metro Council to fund our libraries!

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Mayor Greenberg’s proposed budget for the Louisville Free Public Library is not adequate to meet the needs of our city. As we have previously said, low pay, chronic understaffing, and unsafe working conditions are issues that require actual material investments in LFPL.

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We are calling on the Louisville Metro Council to amend the mayor’s proposed budget to fund more union staff positions, increase pay for union staff to match the mayor’s proposal for non-union staff raises, and invest in social services and security in our libraries.

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We are rallying today for safe libraries! Meet us at 6th and Jefferson (next to Metro Hall) starting at 5:30PM. We’ll move across the street to the Metro Council chambers at 6PM. Wear green and come out in solidarity!

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Statement on safety in libraries:

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Help us get a fair contract from Louisville Metro Goverment. Sign and share our open letter to @louisvillemayor and Louisville Metro Council!

https://t.co/aQdmGMv3vK

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4:42pm, still no word that we will be anything other than open normal hours. Roads are currently hazardous so early release now would still put workers in danger.

[Ashley Nichole Sims ✊ @ANicholeSims]

2:11pm, OMB has shut down courier service, KY state offices are closing, the weather service has issued a winter storm warning, and the library is still taking computer and curbside appointments on apparently regular hours.

[Ashley Nichole Sims ✊ @ANicholeSims]

2:11pm, OMB has shut down courier service, KY state offices are closing, the weather service has issued a winter storm warning, and the library is still taking computer and curbside appointments on apparently regular hours.

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At 9:37am, the LouVax site announced it would be closing “in order to protect the safety of volunteers, clients and staff.” It is 1:34pm and library staff have only been told to expect to be open.

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The fight isn’t over, however. We’re still two and a half years with no raises, and we still have lost faith that our employers will remember us and keep us fully informed of serious safety hazards. Please continue to contact your reps on our behalf!

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It was just confirmed by Metro HR and the library director that library workers in Louisville will now be included in phase 1C of the vaccine distribution.

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Thank you so much to all of you that contacted your representatives on our behalf. While this doesn’t change the trying time that came before it, we’re incredibly relieved that library workers are now being remembered.

[Ashley Nichole Sims ✊ @ANicholeSims]

Kentucky and the CDC have adjusted their language to explicitly include library workers, but Louisville Metro hasn’t. Please continue to put pressure on them!

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Please contact your representatives on behalf of your library workers and share this article from our president, @ANicholeSims.

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If our services are not essential enough to warrant priority vaccination, then we are not essential enough to be offering in-person services when our county is a COVID-19 “red zone.”

[Ashley Nichole Sims ✊ @ANicholeSims]

We’ve learned that LFPL workers that aren’t prioritized for vaccination with other essential workers, so I wrote an article. Please share! https://t.co/SqQF7IXF9c

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We demand that the Louisville Free Public Library either immediately reduces services to curbside pick-up only or prioritizes us for vaccination with other essential workers.

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We continue to stand in support with protestors demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, and we send all our love to Representative Attica Scott and the protestors arrested with her.

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A statement from President Ashley Nichole Sims and Vice President Val Pfister:

We have heard that @atticascott4ky and other peaceful protestors have been accused by LMPD of vandalism of the Main Library, among other charges.

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had anything to do with it, and find these accusations inconsistent with her character and the constant support we have received from her.