<div><br></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">No Layoffs Campaign - Picket at Harvard!</font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">TOMORROW Thursday 5:30pm</font></b></div><div>Lamont Library, 11 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138</div>
<div><br></div><div>The No Layoffs Campaign will picket outside of Lamont Library, the undergraduate library where <b>Occupy Harvard </b>has set up its temporary, targeted occupation, to call attention to the University's draconian policies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Harvard's libraries are still reeling from the staff cuts of 2008. That the library "restructuring" involves buyouts & layoffs has come as a shock to many who say that their departments are already incredibly understaffed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Harvard administration has announced a plan to restructure the library system that will make libraries “more efficient” which will include a “smaller workforce.” The jobs of hundreds of staff currently employed by the libraries are threatened; measures include cuts and restructuring by “voluntary and involuntary means.” High unemployment rates make finding a new job nearly impossible, especially for older workers, who are being incentivized to leave "or else". Harvard’s endowment grew 21% last year, to $32 billion, and the library operating costs represent only 3.3% of the annual budget.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Support the union of clerical workers and nonunionized Harvard employees, including our research librarians!</div><div><br></div>