The Okanagan’s newest library branch is scheduled to open today but the  system itself is to be hit by job action.
The new Vernon branch of the  Okanagan Regional Library cost more than $13.5 million, and it has almost twice  the space as the old library.
There won’t be many more books, but there  is a lot more room for the 5000 people who visit every week. CUPE workers  plan to have an information picket line outside the library when it opens  Saturday morning. 150 unionized library workers through-out the  Okanagan began strike action Friday.
So far the strike isn’t causing  any major problems. ORL branches in Oliver and Osoyoos are not unionized.

Thanks to Global Kelowna for files