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City libraries consider contracting out jobs

By: Bartley Kives

10/11/2009 2:21 PM | Comments: 0

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg hopes to save $160,000 by contracting out library-book cataloguing, processing and shelving services, says the city’s largest union.

City council’s executive policy committee held a meeting with the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 500 this afternoon to discuss the replacement of seven city workers with a library-services company located outside the city, CUPE 500 president Mike Davidson said.

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No city workers would lose their jobs under the plan. Instead, they would be redeployed to other areas of the public service, Davidson said.

He said he would like to see precisely how the change would benefit the city’s bottom line. He claimed the move would change the culture of Winnipeg’s libraries.

If the plan moves forward, the city would issue a tender for a library-services contract.

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