The worst thing about Vancouver’s municipal strike
Hands-down, the lack of library services – when I’m at work, anyway. I didn’t realise how often I used VPL’s electronic resources! I keep forgetting that they’re unavailable, and getting a no-service message from the website.
I have an electronic alert set up to tell me every time the phrase “library technician” appears in the news. The unfortunate thing is that library techs are never in the news so much as when there’s a strike.
How are VPL’s staff doing, I wonder? There were a couple of interesting (brings up the gender-wage gap) letters (brings up the “not everyone who works in a library is a librarian” issue) to the editor a few days ago in the Vancouver Sun. Leave a comment if you’ve been affected by the strike.