Employee relations in libraries: The current scene

Kleingartner, Archie; Kennelly, Jean R.

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Title

Employee relations in libraries: The current scene

Author(s)

• Kleingartner, Archie
• Kennelly, Jean R.

Issue Date

1975

Keyword(s)

• Employee relations in libraries
• Human resources
• Librarians’ unions
• Collective bargaining

Abstract

"In the 1970s we are observing another period of intense interest in collective bargaining. The fact that the 20th Annual Allerton Park Institute is devoted entirely to the question of collective bargaining in libraries is strong, but by no means the only evidence of the resurgence of interest in this topic by the library profession. The skeptic will ask, ""Is the current scene any different from what occurred thirty-five years ago?"" That is, have we simply reached another one of those points in time when librarians get excited about unionism and overreact to developments all with little prospect for lasting impact on libraries, the library profession or individual librarians? In retrospect, it is not hard to understand why large-scale unionization of librarians did not occur in the 1930s. At the time, most union activity was concentrated in the private sector of the economy the NLRA applies only to employees in the private sector but most librarians are employed in public institutions. From the 1930s until roughly 1960, relatively little union activity occurred anywhere in the public sector."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (20th : 1974)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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