“Final agreement reached between librarians’ union and UC,” Daily Aggie (2011)

Black and white image shows a march of faculty, staff, and students at UC Berkeley during UC-AFT's strike in 2003.

Describing what was at stake in UC-AFT’s librarians contract negotations in 2011, Pres. Mike Rotkin said, “We have estimated that 40 percent of the librarians hired over the past 10 years have now left UC for positions elsewhere. That is a huge turnover rate and it leaves the remaining UC librarians with workload problems since they have to do their own work as well as that previously done by the librarians who have left and not been replaced.” Read more at the Daily Nexus