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Library sta march for compensation and bene ts

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Assistant conservator at the Book Arts Workshop Lizzie Curran said she had been thinking about unionizing for many years. “Our promotions track got taken away [during the pandemic],” Curran said. “None of us got raises while the College’s endowment doubled. So that was unfair to say the least. It started long before that. I think there’s a culture of administration making decisions that afect us, without us.”

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Head of digital scholarly engagement Laura Braunstein echoed Curran’s sentiment, adding that the “wellbeing of [library] staf has not always been a priority for the College.”

At the same time, Wolfe said recent advancements regarding the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth and the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth have been “encouraging” to

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