[Publib] Settlement

[James Casey]

An excerpt from the article to which Michael referred:

 

"Lecturers, who teach a large portion of Cal State classes, would see
their average annual pay rise in two categories to about $54,000 and
$66,222 if they can find a full load of teaching. Average salaries for
assistant and associate professors on the tenure track would rise to
$90,749 and for full professors to $105,465, according to the
university."

 

Whether public libraries would have sufficiently large bargaining units
to force settlements of this kind is another matter.  Local public
schools in our area of South Suburban Chicago have equally impressive
salaries - especially when considering the higher cost of living in
California.  Unionized public school classroom teachers in one of our
local districts have an average salary of $81,000 for the 9 month year
(without Ph.D, publications, etc. that are required in academia for most
faculty status situations).  

 

Are salaries of this kind relevant to the world of public libraries?  If
public library personnel were to organize into bargaining units, would
they be large enough and have enough leverage to force such settlements
or concessions?  If such salaries were attainable, would our budgets be
large enough to sustain them without massive layoffs?

 

James B. Casey - my own views

Director of Oak Lawn Public Library

ALA Council Member - Candidate for Re-election

 

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Cal State contract agreement puts faculty strike plans on hold


By Larry Gordon, Times Staff Writer
4:21 PM PDT, April 3, 2007 

 

The faculty union and the Cal State University system today announced a
tentative settlement in their long-simmering contract dispute, boosting
professors' pay by at least 20.7% over four years and averting
threatened walkouts at the 23 campuses across the state. 

 

The contract calls for the 24,000 professors, librarians, counselors and
coaches to receive raises that would total 20.7%, in phases retroactive
to last July and through 2010. Then, various groups of them will get
additional raises, based on merit, seniority and new steps created in
their pay ladders. 

 

See:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-calstate4apr04,0,3710301.story?c
oll=la-home-headlines

 

And you can read the fact-finding report as well as the contract at:
http://www.calfac.org/

 

M. McGrorty

A Cal State Alum, Labor Studies 1985





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