The Essex County library dispute has been going on for almost four months now. Hundreds of Storytimes and Book Clubs have been cancelled.
Thousands of books have not been read. Thousands of hours of computer usage have not happened. And for all the media attention it has generated, one might believe it isn’t even happening.
Aside from a small article now and then, there has been no news at all about this labour dispute, nary an editorial. Library patrons are living in news limbo, having no idea what is happening, or, more importantly, why it isn’t.
Our county representatives have not been reported as making any public statements. There has been not a peep reported from the library board.
No one, save the union, has anything to say. And the local media are letting them get away with it.
PAULA SUBITY, Leamington
