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Pratt Workers United

@prattworkers.bsky.social
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We are the workers of the Enoch Pratt Free Library system. We aim to make EPFL a better library for us and the people of Baltimore! www.prattworkersunited.org

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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Pratt Workers United encourages members and supporters to join the protests today, January 30th at 2pm at 31 Hopkins Plaza and Saturday, January 31st at 3:30pm at City Hall.
ICE is not welcome in our libraries. Pratt Workers United stands with our immigrant coworkers, patrons and neighbors
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Debra Elfenbein @debraelfenbein.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
HAPPY MAY DAY!! Come to our march!
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
PWU, along with other unions & organizations, will march as part of the larger Baltimore May Day action. We invite all cultural workers & supporters to join us at 4pm May 1st in front of Central Library for a rally, then a march to McKeldin Square at 5. Culture matters! Workers make it happen!
March for Cultural Workers
Culture matters! Workers make it happen!

May 1st, 2025
EPFL Central Library at 400 Cathedral Street
Rally 4pm-5pm
March to McKeldin at 5pm
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
PWU, along with other unions & organizations, will march as part of the larger Baltimore May Day action. We invite all cultural workers & supporters to join us at 4pm May 1st in front of Central Library for a rally, then a march to McKeldin Square at 5. Culture matters! Workers make it happen!
March for Cultural Workers
Culture matters! Workers make it happen!

May 1st, 2025
EPFL Central Library at 400 Cathedral Street
Rally 4pm-5pm
March to McKeldin at 5pm
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our bargaining team will be meeting with leadership to hear their response to our package proposal! Let's get this contract to our members! #unionstrong
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"Pratt Workers have waited long enough!" At the Board of Trustees meeting last Wednesday, Pratt workers showed out to urge Pratt Leadership to accept a package proposal from our bargaining team to finish bargaining on our first contract. Watch Bargaining Team member Josie Breck's speech below:
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Board of Trustees Meeting - March 12, 2025
YouTube video by Pratt Workers United
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🎶 It's a hard knock life... but that's no excuse for Pratt leadership not to come to the table! 🎶 We don't need anything but... a date for our next bargaining session!
A meme featuring little orphan Annie looking quite miffed and pensive, wearing a Pratt Workers United button.

We keep hearing we'll get a date for our next bargaining session "tomorrow." is tomorrow a day away or not?
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Our COLA is on the way! The Board of Estimates approved our Cost Of Living Adjustments on the December 4th meeting. Now all we need is a timeline. Thank you to everyone who sent statements of support!
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Board of Estimates Meeting 12/4/2024 COLA Approval Highlights
YouTube video by Pratt Workers United
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Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Pratt Workers United reach a wage settlement, as talks on alleged poor working conditions at the Enoch Pratt Free Library continue. tinyurl.com/5fc46aa9 [This side agreement was approved today at the Board of Estimates today]
Employees cheer after a 218-12 vote established a union at the Enoch Pratt Library in November 2022. (prattworkersunited.org)
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
2.5 hours left to get in your statement of support!
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our COLA is on the agenda for the December 4th, 2024 Board of Estimates meeting! Send a Statement of support to BOE.Clerk@baltimorecity.gov by noon the day before the meeting (12pm, December 3rd) to let them know you support your local library workers!
Tell the Board of Estimates What our COLA means to you!

Our COLA is on the agenda for the December 4th, 2024 Board of Estimates meeting!

Send a Statement of support to BOE.Clerk@baltimorecity.gov by noon the day before the meeting (12pm, December 3rd) to let them know you support your local library workers!

Be sure to write the date of the meeting and title of the agenda item in the subject line: "12/4, Memorandum of Agreement between the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Pratt Workers United, AFSCME Maryland Council 3." Indicate whether you want to address the board at the actual meeting or just to have your statement noted.You can use the sample letter below as a guide:

"My name is (...) and I am a patron of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. I support the Memorandum of Agreement between the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Pratt Workers United, AFSCME Maryland Council 3. Supporting my local library workers in their fight for better wages and working conditions is important to me as a patron of the library and as a taxpayer. I (do / do not) wish to address the board."
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our COLA is on the agenda for the December 4th, 2024 Board of Estimates meeting! Send a Statement of support to BOE.Clerk@baltimorecity.gov by noon the day before the meeting (12pm, December 3rd) to let them know you support your local library workers!
Tell the Board of Estimates What our COLA means to you!

Our COLA is on the agenda for the December 4th, 2024 Board of Estimates meeting!

Send a Statement of support to BOE.Clerk@baltimorecity.gov by noon the day before the meeting (12pm, December 3rd) to let them know you support your local library workers!

Be sure to write the date of the meeting and title of the agenda item in the subject line: "12/4, Memorandum of Agreement between the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Pratt Workers United, AFSCME Maryland Council 3." Indicate whether you want to address the board at the actual meeting or just to have your statement noted.You can use the sample letter below as a guide:

"My name is (...) and I am a patron of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. I support the Memorandum of Agreement between the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Pratt Workers United, AFSCME Maryland Council 3. Supporting my local library workers in their fight for better wages and working conditions is important to me as a patron of the library and as a taxpayer. I (do / do not) wish to address the board."
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
There's our COLA! We have a written agreement. Now all that's left between PWU members & our COLAs is approval by the Board of Estimates. Thanks to our members, AFCSME Council 3, Pratt leadership, the Labor Commissioner, & everyone else who helped to make this happen!
"The COLA is Coming!" in retro font over a faded picture of Cola bottles in a tray modified to have the PWU logo on them.
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kd @sweatnap.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
support our amazing library workers 💪
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CarolfromBaltimore @carolfrombaltimore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Best library system anywhere.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Library good. Union good. Library Union best!
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9_tellthetruth @9tellthetruth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
WAHOO ENOCH PRATT IN THE HOUSE!!!!
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kc kc kc (ichabod era) @katecrane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
coolest follow I’ve ever gotten
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kc kc kc (ichabod era) @katecrane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I 💖 the Enoch Pratt Free Library with all my 💖 Support Pratt Workers United
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Larita R • 👁️‍🗨️✴️👁️‍🗨️ @artbylarita.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
You guys my local library has a union!! 🎉🎉🎉🥳 But it looks like they need some support. Any amount of solidarity means a lot so give them a follow or simply like the post! Support the library workers that truly keep our libraries running!
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Library Lagomorph @bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Support to library unions every where, but especially Enoch Pratt
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AFSCME Local 590 DC 47 @afscme590.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Union roll call. Post pics of you & your Union kicking ass & taking names. Here's one of me with some siblings taken during the unionization drive this summer. I'm 2nd from the back row, in green, fist raised, standing next to the guy holding the sign. #solidarity
Photo is of members of Local 590 AFSCME standing at the entrance to the Van Pelt Library at the Univ. of PA, holding signs in support of the librarians drive to join the union.
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
UC and librarians reach contract agreement for increased wages and support, via Daily Cal www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @ucaft.bsky.social
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UC and librarians reach contract agreement for increased wages and support
After nearly a year and 21 bargaining sessions, the University of California and the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, reached a new contract agreement for 354 professional librarians across
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Congratulations to UC librarians on their new contract. Hard-won--a year of bargaining--but well-deserved raises, annual PD funds, and freedom to work remotely. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... great work @kklevine.bsky.social
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UC and librarians reach contract agreement for increased wages and support
After nearly a year and 21 bargaining sessions, the University of California and the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, reached a new contract agreement for 354 professional librarians across
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AFSCME Local 590 DC 47 @afscme590.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
On 10/24 the NLRB certified the votes & Penn Libraries United won the right to join Local 590. My new siblings sure could use some words of encouragement from the #labor community as we begin the hard work of negotiating the 1st contract. Show 'em some love, BlueSky!
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Solidarity to our comrades in Penn Libraries United as they start their first contract negotiations!
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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Support library workers!
Marquee for the Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, reading SUPPORT LIBRARY WORKERS
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Laurel Snyder @laurelsnyder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Good deal! I’m glad to have found you here. Pratt really did change my life. In fact, the Roland Park branch figures prominently in a graphic novel I have coming out in a few years with the amazing @trungles.bsky.social !
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Laurel Snyder @laurelsnyder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
When you’re poking around #bluesky and you find the #library that made you… Thank you so much, Enoch Pratt! You were my school/home/babysitter/everything. (Govans, Hampden, Roland Park, Main Branches)
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Baltimore Urbanist @bmoreurbanist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I've had a Pratt library card as long as I can remember, did the summer reading challenges as a kid, and loved talking to all the different workers at different branches. Y'all (and the work you do) are amazing and I hope negotiations work out!!! Truly one of the best resources in Baltimore
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Pratt Workers United @prattworkers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! we are Pratt Workers United, the union of the Enoch Pratt Free Library system in Baltimore. We hope you will extend support and solidarity to library workers wherever you are, but especially here in Bmore!
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