Residents are now speaking out against the Essex County library strike.
Several residents made presentations at County Council Wednesday night including Cindy Lemieux and her two children.
Lemieux says both sides need to realize the hurt they've caused local families and she's urging CUPE 2974 and the library board to get back to the table.
Lemieux says her kids were lost this past summer without the library.
"They go to the weekly summer reading program on top of our weekly visits to the library just for books and family games nights and things like that. They missed out on all of those and the community is saying what the community wants. So they know what they want, they need to do it as our officials."
She says for some residents library services are essential.
"Our family is avid readers and we read several books a week and it's hard to do that without the services of the library. It's important to my family and it's important to everybody that I've spoken to about it who other families that I know that missed it and would like to get back to it."
Crédit photo: CUPE 2974 Sub-unit Chair, Lori Wightman, with letters from local children (Photo by AM800's Zander Broeckel)
Meantime, local students have began writing letters to the striking library workers stating they miss their services and hope the strike and can come to an end soon.
On Thursday, the strike will be entering its 119th day with no plan for negotiations to resume.