Pratt Workers United

ICE is not welcome in our libraries. Pratt Workers United stands with our immigrant coworkers, patrons and neighbors

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.

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HAPPY MAY DAY!! Come to our march!

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

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

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!

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

we as the union unfortunately do not control the hours admin sets for the library

YouTube video by Pratt Workers United Board of Trustees Meeting - March 12, 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:

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?

🎶 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!

YouTube video by Pratt Workers United Board of Estimates Meeting 12/4/2024 COLA Approval Highlights

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!

Employees cheer after a 218-12 vote established a union at the Enoch Pratt Library in November 2022. (prattworkersunited.org)

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]

2.5 hours left to get in your statement of support!

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."

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."

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!

thank you!!

Thank you so much! Solidarity, comrade!

"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.

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!

support our amazing library workers 💪

Best library system anywhere.

so true!

Library good. Union good. Library Union best!

that's right!!

WAHOO ENOCH PRATT IN THE HOUSE!!!!

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thank you so much!

I 💖 the Enoch Pratt Free Library with all my 💖

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thanks so much for the support!

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!

Thanks very much for the support! ✊ 📕

Support to library unions every where, but especially Enoch Pratt