Carnegie Library workers vote to join United Steelworkers

WPXI.com ^ | 8/15/2019 | Luke Torrance

[Buckeye McFrog]

PITTSBURGH - Workers at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh voted to join the United Steelworkers union on Wednesday.

According to a press release, the workers voted "overwhelmingly" to join USW. Library workers began organizing their campaign in June and are seeking a collective bargaining agreement that would cover employees across 19 branches and the library support center.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So Marion the Librarian is now a union thug. Do horn-rimmed glasses go well with a hard hat?

A few years ago (in an off-year election with virtually no Republicans running) they passed a ballot initiative raising a .25 millage to support the libraries.

Now that they are union employees you can count on that to go up and up and up and up. Govunions are attracted to tax money like a moth to a flame.

[BobL]

Librarians are also pedophiles, or at least enablers of pedophiles, so I’d rather they be union thugs, if given the choice between the two (and I do hate unions).

[Skywise]

public unions should have never been legalized. It’s an abomination as the unions grow their employee base which, in turn, increases their political power.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’m obviously ignorant on this. Library workers can join a steel workers union? You can join a union in a completely different line of business than the business the workers work in??

[Zathras]

We used to joke that the steelworkers were the first to leave the jobsite when it started raining.
We figured they rusted.

[Beagle8U]

OK, at least they are the same fields of industry./sarc

[HombreSecreto]

Keep Reaching For That Rainbow!

[jmaroneps37]

Liberal schmucks who are proud to contribute to union thugs with no expectation of anything in return.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m obviously ignorant on this. Library workers can join a steel workers union?

Well there sure as heck aren't any steel workers left around here to organize. So unless the union brass wants to go out and get real jobs, yeah, they're going to organize librarians, home health aides, part-time college instructors. Pretty much anybody.

[Meatspace]

Unions should be banned.

The Senate and the President should act on legislation that would make Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining illegal.

[Leaning Right]

I used to love going to libraries. But I haven’t been to one in years. Why? Anything I want to read, and anything I want to research, is right on the internet. (Thank you, Al Gore.)

But as you said, these libraries get public money. So they might live on long after they become obsolete.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The CLP branch where I live primarily appears to serve as a Blockbuster video rental with no fees.

[DannyTN]

Library workers can join a steel workers union?

Have you never gotten a steely eyed glaze from a librarian for talking too loud?

[Dr. Sivana]

Better than AFSCME thugs.

[Jamestown1630]

I worked in various types of libraries for a long time. Many of them are NOT very quiet places ;-)

[EEGator]

Aren’t you a little tyrant. What about freedom of association?

[Leaning Right]

> Unions should be banned. <

Oh, no. Folks have the right to free association. And if they want to band together and form a union, so be it. It’s a free country.

Now, here’s what should be banned:

1. Ban mandatory union membership. If I have the right to join a union, I should also have the right not to join a union. The Supreme Court has ruled that public union membership must be voluntary. That ruling should be expanded to include private unions.

2. Ban laws that require employers to recognize unions, and bargain with them. Folks have the right to form a union. And employers should have the right to ignore that union.

3. Ban laws that make it difficult to fire striking union workers. If those union librarians want to strike for higher pay, go right ahead. But then the library should be able to fire them all, and permanently replace them, with no red tape involved. Level the playing field.

[Leaning Right]

> The CLP branch where I live primarily appears to serve as a Blockbuster video rental with no fees. <

I know a lady who used to work at the Carnegie Library in Homestead. She says the place was a more a day care center than a library. Parents would come in with their kids, then leave without them. After a couple of hours, the parents would come back, and pick up their kids.

[Ann Archy]

After DRAG QUEENS reading to little kids in LIBRARIES this shouldn’t surprise us!,

[Meatspace]

Unions, both public and private, steal from you and I everyday.

Collective bargaining is extortion.

Unions killed American industry.

There is no right to association when you destroy our nation.