The library workers' union went on strike in February and a settlement was made one week later with the city.

"I'm just appalled by the whole situation - the $8 million in debt, the investigations," said Carol Thomas, a member of the library workers' local.

The modules are the main way that library workers interact with the system.

Ten library workers were laid off in the last year because of budget cuts, she said, and many municipal offices are understaffed.

Demonstrations around Harvard's libraries and library workers continued through Commencement 2012.

And the library workers' union allowed staff reorganizations that at least promise short-term survival.

With this substantial increase in libraries, library workers were established as a permanent workforce.

The two went back to their reading as one of the library workers went past.

His main mission ought to be to end this offensive encroachment of the rights of library workers and users.

Time Inc. informed its library staff yesterday that 43 jobs, about one-third of the library workers, would be eliminated in six months.