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September 24, 2007 - Letter to Staff


September 12, 2007 - Board of Trustees Meeting and Work Session
The Monroe County Library Board of Trustees listened to several statements from the public in favor of library unionization during their regular board meeting and then had a work session after the regular meeting to discuss the unionization proposal in detail. The next opportunity for unionization discussion from the Board will be at the October 12, 2007 work session. Read more about it in the Herald-Times articles: Library Board Hears Union Request and Library Board to Vote on $6.6 Million Budget Tonight.

August 29, 2007 - Library committee seeks union
The last installment of a three-part story in the IDS (Indiana Daily Student).

August 29, 2007 - More on the union movement from the IDS
Read 'The Making of a Union' for the second part of this informative series.

August 28, 2007 - Student newspaper writes series about library
Check out the first part of the IDS series of articles, 'Library Benefit Cuts Are 'Symptom Not the Problem''.

August 27, 2007 - Library benefits discussed
'Motive Challenged in Library Benefit Cuts' is an IDS story about plans for the library to cut staff retirement benefits.