Workers at Howard County Library System win union election

Feb 16, 2024 | Press

Workers overwhelmingly choose to form their union with AFSCME Maryland Howard County — Over 200 library workers at the Howard County Library System have overwhelmingly voted to form their union with AFSCME Maryland Council 3. The election was conducted by the American...

Reminder: Union Election Next Week!

Feb 5, 2024 | General Updates

We are very excited that our union election is coming up next week. In order to ensure that all eligible staff members have accurate information and answers to all of their questions, HoCo Library Workers United will be hosting a general meeting over Zoom on...

We Have Election Dates!

Jan 26, 2024 | General Updates

We are so excited to share that we have secured an arbitrator! Based on their schedule, we will be holding our union election from Monday, February 12th through Thursday, February 15th. Please note the days of the week and the voting periods have been adjusted to...

New Year Update

Jan 4, 2024 | General Updates

Happy New Year! At the end of last year, we secured an election agreement for an in-person election across four days at all seven HCLS library branches. We know everyone’s wondering if there will be a union election next week (January 8 – January 11) per...

Message to HCLS Board of Trustees

Nov 17, 2023 | General Updates

Please see our video message to the Howard County Library System’s Board of Trustees introducing our union Howard County Library Workers United to them. We are now eagerly awaiting our election...

Next Steps

Nov 9, 2023 | General Updates

On October 19th, we filed our union recognition petition with our library President, Tonya Aikens. We have emailed her to request a meeting to discuss next steps in moving this process forward. We await a day and time to meet with her. We look forward to meeting with...