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Waukegan Public Library (IL) workers win stronger rights in first contract

  • 1.  Waukegan Public Library (IL) workers win stronger rights in first contract

    Posted Jul 01, 2023 10:16 PM

    Waukegan Public Library workers win stronger rights in first contract | AFSCME 31

    Rosario Colin, a children's reference assistant and a member of the AFSCME bargaining committee, said WPL workers began organizing to reclaim the voice they had lost under the new administration.

    "We were going up against an administration that didn't hear us and didn't see us. They treated us like cogs in a machine," Colin said. "They didn't care about the history that we had with the library and the impact we made as individuals."

    WPL workers organized and their union was officially certified with AFSCME Council 31 in December 2021. The union represents 38 library clerks, specialists, assistants, associates, coordinators and librarians.



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    Kathleen de la Peña McCook
    Distinguished University Professor
    School of Information
    University of South Florida
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