Category: Library

Parity and Protections for Librarians and Archivists

While we are working toward either a negotiated settlement or an arbitration award, we want our Librarians and Archivists to know that we have been fighting to make your work better in this round—and we’ll keep pushing UBC in both this bargaining round and in the future.

Library Workload and the Confirmation Process

The Association continues to seek to modify Part 5, Conditions of Appointment for Librarians to ensure that workload is collegially assigned in a fair and equitable manner, and to create Heads language for the Library that mirrors Heads language for faculty (i.e., term appointments, stipend, administrative leave). In addition, in this round we have proposed a change in the confirmation review process and introduced definitions upon which candidates for confirmed appointments will be judged.

Librarians

The Association has been seeking, since 2010, to modify Part 5, Conditions of Appointment for Librarians, for two reasons:

  1. to ensure workload is collegially assigned in a fair and equitable manner; and
  2. to create Heads language for the Library that is essentially parallel to Heads language for faculty (i.e., term appointments, stipend, administrative leave).