Unionized librarians were out on picket lines in front of six Vancouver Island branches again on Friday.
Members of the B.C. General Employees Union were picketing at branches in Sidney, Sooke, Duncan, Nanaimo North, Courtenay and Campbell River.
Libraries remain closed when picketing is underway.
The union and its employer, the Vancouver Island Regional Library system, have been unable to reach a deal for a new collective agreement. Their previous contract expired December 2020.
This week, the two sides met with a mediator but failed to come to an agreement on wages.
The system has 39 branches and nearly 50 librarians, and covers an area from Sooke to Sidney, north on Vancouver Island to Port Hardy, coastal B.C. and Haida Gwaii.
About 90 per cent of the system’s funding comes from member municipalities and regional districts.
