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May
3, 2006 - ND students deliver message;
Activist sit-in outside Jenkins' office to push campaign
for living wage on campus - "University
of Notre Dame student activists engaged in a sit-in
outside the university president's office Tuesday to
draw attention to their campaign for a living wage for
campus workers..." [read more]
- The South Bend Tribune
May 2, 2006 - UM janitors end 2-month
strike - "It took a hunger strike, a student
sit-in and countless protests, but striking University
of Miami janitors will be back on the job Wednesday,
following a settlement in the two-month labor dispute..."
[read
more]
- The Miami Herald
Apr 27, 2006 - Plan gives 400 LTEs
permanent UW jobs - "A proposal to raise
400 of the 1,300 LTEs on campus to full-time status
and guarantee a living wage of $10.23 an hour to all
LTEs was made today..." [read
more]
-The Capital Times (UW-Madison)
Apr 27, 2006 - University closer to
paying workers full living wage - "The
University Council has appointed members to an ad hoc
committee to study the pay and benefits of low-wage
University employees..." [read
more]
-The Red and Black (UGA-Athens)
Apr 26, 2006 - Student protesters
face UVa charges - "The 17 University
of Virginia students arrested after participating in
a sit-in at Madison Hall in mid-April now face University
Judiciary Committee charges..." [read
more]
-The Daily Progress
Apr 23, 2006 - Shalala Says UM Will
Not Demand Union Election - "University
of Miami president Donna Shalala says the school will
not take a position on the unionization of striking
janitors at the campus...." [read
more]
-CBS4 Miami
Apr 20, 2006 - CLAP, University face
wage issue - "Adding a scholarly voice
to the Campus Labor Action Project's campaign for a
living wage for Notre Dame workers, economics professor
Teresa Ghilarducci..." [read
more]
-The Notre Dame Observer
more on campaign at
Notre Dame
Apr 20, 2006 - Confusion denies workers
their rights - "During my employment at
Swarthmore College, students have played an important
role in the fight against inequality in the workplace.
Students across the country have been allies..."
[read
more]
-The Swarthmore Phoenix
more on campaign
at Swarthmore
Apr
18, 2006 - UVM student activists, faculty
respond to last week's eviction of demonstrators...
- "University of Vermont students who have spent
the past year rallying in support of higher wages for
lower paid university staff said their cause will not
be deterred by last week's police-led eviction of student
demonstrators from a camp-in on the UVM Green..."
[read more]
Apr 18, 2006 - Anger rises on both sides of strike at University of Miami - "Outside the University of Miami's main entrance, six janitors and five students continued their hunger strike on Monday... " [read more]
-The New York Times
more on campaign at Miami
Apr 18, 2006 - Despite Arrests, U-Va. Students Devoted to Bettering Workers - "...But the protests continue, drawing dozens and sometimes hundreds of sympathizers in the largest crowds this 20,400-student university has seen since the anti-apartheid demonstrations of the 1980s..." [read more]
-The Washington Post
more on campaign at UVa
Apr 17, 2006 - Students plan public forum on living wage at Notre Dame - "Students activists at the University of Notre Dame want better pay for university employees, saying some full-time campus workers do not earn enough money to adequately support their families..." [read more]
-Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
more on campaign at Notre Dame
Apr 17, 2006 - Arrests don't end wage protests - "The arrests Saturday evening of 17 University of Virginia students who had occupied a campus building for four days to protest the wages paid to university employees did nothing to deter a crowd..." [read more]
-The Washington Post
Apr 15, 2006 - Police order student protesters off UVM Green -"A tent city that had been erected on the University of Vermont Green to agitate for higher wages was ordered dismantled by university and city police..." [read more]
-The Boston Globe
Apr 14, 2006 - Sodexho workers fear loss of jobs - "Members of the Student Labor Action Committee (SLAC) have begun to get involved in the issue. Junior Victor Crentsil said that they plan on getting in touch with Furhman and hope to be involved in the employees' contract negotiation process..." [read more]
-The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Apr 13, 2006 - Students sit in to protest U.Va. minimum wage - "Cheered on by several hundred protesters, 17 University of Virginia students camped out inside Madison Hall yesterday, vowing to stay until the school's lowest-paid employees receive a "living wage..." [read more]
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
Apr 11, 2006 - Cheers for the end of poverty pay - "Cleaners will get a pay rise as Queen Mary College becomes the first living-wage campus in the UK..." [read more]
-The Guardian
Apr 8, 2006 - Protesters seek 'living wage' at Board of Visitors meeting - "Speakers questioned the university’s leadership and demanded a living wage of $10.72 for all UVa workers..." [read more]
-Daily Progress
more on the campaign at UVA
Apr 6, 2005 - Minimum wage for full-time ASU workers rising, Crow says - "Minimum wage for full-time employees at ASU will rise from $5.15 to $9 an hour beginning July 1, said ASU President Michael Crow..." [read more]
-ASU WebDevil
more on the campaign at ASU 
Apr 5, 2006 - Rally celebrates move to union janitors - "UB Students Against Sweatshops rallied outside the Student Union on Tuesday afternoon, proclaiming another activist victory, this time in their quest for "justice for janitors."..." [read more]
-The Spectrum
more on the campaign at Buffalo
Apr 5, 2006 - SEC holds Living Wages protest - "They held signs that said, “Honest wages for honest workers,” and, “Will work 4 living wages,” and passed out fliers, stickers and buttons to onlooking students..." [read more]
-The Daily Reveille
more on the campaign at Louisiana State
Apr 5, 2006 - Living Wage plan passes - "Students overwhelmingly approved a Living Wage Referendum in Tuesday’s Associated Students of Madison elections..." [read more]
-The Daily Cardinal
more on the campaign at Madison
Apr 5, 2006 - Living Wage protest outside president’s office - "Four police officers from the Western Michigan University Department of Public Safety escorted about 20 WMU students out of the Seibert Administration Building at about 11 a.m. yesterday for staging a protest in support for the Living Wage Campaign..." [read more]
-The Western Herald
more on the campaign at Western Michigan
Apr 4, 2006 - Protest for wages -
"This past Thursday in John Dewey Lounge close
to 60 students, faculty and University employees gathered
to give a press conference that kicked off a Week of
Action in hopes of obtaining livable wages for all employees
on campus..." [read
more]
-The Vermont Cynic
more on the campaign at
UVM
Mar 31, 2006 - UVM rallies for better
pay - "A group of University of Vermont
students, staff and labor rights activists rallied on
campus Thursday to demand better wages and working conditions
for university workers and contractors not represented
by a union..." [read
more]
-Burlington Free Press
more on the campaign
at UVM
Mar 30, 2006 - Students push for higher wages for campus food workers - "A group of ASU students wants to have a hand in negotiating the University's new food-service contract..." [read more]
-ASU Web Devil
more on the campaign at ASU
Mar 29, 2006 - Univ. should improve living wages - It is clear to anyone who investigates the matter the University does not pay its workers fairly. Many workers take on second and third jobs to augment their full-time wages at the University..." [read more]
-The Red and Black
more on the campaign at UGA
Mar 29, 2006 - Miami students hold sit-in to support striking janitors - "About 20 University of Miami students ended a more than 12-hour sit-in on the Coral Gables campus early Wednesday after university officials agreed to several demands regarding campus janitors striking over alleged unfair labor practices..." [read more]
- The Boston Globe
more on the campaign at UMiami
Mar 28, 2006 - UM
students stage sit-in at administration building in
support of janitors... - "To show support
of the University of Miami janitors strike, about 19
students began a sit-in in the administration building
about noon today..." [read
more]
-The Miami Herald
more on the campaign at UMiami
Mar 26, 2006 - Pay-hike plan no help to many who work at UGA - "Even though state leaders have the lowest-paid in mind this legislative session, their budget recommendations won't help Payne and hundreds like him at UGA who don't hold state-funded jobs..." [read more]
-Athens Banner-Herald
more on the campaign at UGA
Mar 16, 2006 - Tri-Co employees, students rally for union - "A group of Tri-Co Union supporters, including some Swarthmore students and Hamza Wali, an Environmental Services employee involved in the union negotiations, met with President Al Bloom on Tuesday..." [read more]
-The Phoenix Online
more on the campaign at Swarthmore
March 16, 2006 - Striking Janitors:
University Announcement a Victory, But No Guarantee
of Improvements - "President Donna Shalala
released a set of recommendations that would set a minimum
wage and increase access to some level of health care...
UNICCO janitor Clara Vargas: 'it is not enough... we
need the security of a union contract.'" [read
more]
- Yahoo! Finance
more on the campaign
at U Miami
Mar 12, 2006 - Why won't Virginia
universities pay employees a living wage? - "Based
on research from the Virginia Organizing Project, a
statewide citizens group that has been working on wage
issues for the past eight years, thousands of university
workers in Virginia make between $7 and $9 an hour..."
[read
more]
-The Free Lance-Star
more
on campaigns in Virginia
Mar 10, 2006 - WMU students push for living wage for university's contract employees - "Calling it the university's moral obligation, a student group has asked Western Michigan University's leaders to institute what it called a living wage for contracted workers..." [read more]
-Kalamazoo Gazette
more on the campaign at Western Michigan
Mar 10, 2006 - Teach in last night
- "Last night we held a teach-in during President
Shalala's class (in an adjacent classroom). It was mostly
attended by workers, and they got to have a conversation
with two Miami-Dade health care policy professionals..."
[read more]
- posted by Liza of STAND
more on the campaign
at U Miami
Mar
9, 2006 - CLAP presents wage report to
administrators - "Four members of the
Campus Labor Action Project (CLAP) descended upon the
Main Building Wednesday at 1 p.m. to present Notre Dame
officials with a report on the living wage, which includes
the demand that University President Father John Jenkins
publicly recognize the issue..." [read more]
-The Observer
more on the campaign
at Notre Dame
Mar 9, 2006 - Workers, Students Rally
in Denton's Driveway - "Just yards away
from Chancellor Denice Denton’s bedroom and $30,000
dog run, 80 UC Santa Cruz employees and students rallied
for dignity, justice, and a living wage, Tuesday night..."
[read
more]
-City on a Hill Press
more on the campaign at
UCSC
Mar 9, 2006 - UBSAS talks trash in the Student Union - "In a scene reminiscent of mailmen carrying in bag after bag of mail in "Miracle on 34th Street," protestors from UB Students Against Sweatshops..." [read more]
-The Spectrum
more on the campaign at UBuffalo
Mar 8, 2006 - UVa to raise minimum salaries for lowest paid - "By the end of March, the University of Virginia will raise the minimum salaries..." [read more]
-The Daily Progress
more on the campaign at UVA
Mar 6, 2006 - 'Living Wage' is issue of Catholic Character - "Last fall, Porter and other Notre Dame student activists launched a campus campaign to improve wages for university workers. It's called the Campus Labor Action Project..." [read more]
-The South Bend Tribune
more on the campaign at Notre Dame
Mar
5, 2006 - UM Students/ Faculty March with
Striking UNICCO Workers... - "In an unexpected
swell of community activism hundreds of students, faculty,
workers and community leaders marched on Friday, March
3rd in support of maintenance employees who are on strike..."
[read
more]
- Miami Indymedia
more on the campaign
at U Miami
Mar 3, 2006 - UVa wage debate rages
- "Student advocates of a living wage for University
of Virginia workers say a recent announcement by President
John T. Casteen III..." [read
more]
-The Daily Progress
more on the campaign
at UVA
Mar 1, 2006 - UT union's raise request heard in legislative halls - "...members of the United Campus Workers scattered throughout legislative offices meeting with lawmakers about a bill that would give higher education employees a $1,200 across-the-board raise..." [read more] (you have to register but it's free)
-The Knoxville News Sentinel
more on the campaign at UTK
Mar 1, 2006 - Fired University of Miami Janitor leads Strike over benefits - " "It shows we are now a force that has to be reckoned with," said Coker-Dukowitz, a member of Students Toward a New Democracy, or STAND, a campus organization that has assumed a lead role in supporting the workers..." [read more]
- The Orlando Sentinel
more on the campaign at UMiami
Feb
22, 2006 - Rally held on Grounds to support
living wage - "Over 100 students, faculty
and community members gathered at the Rotunda yesterday
to call upon the administration to pay the University's
lowest-paid workers what supporters term a "living
wage." The rally was organized by the Living Wage
Campaign at the University of Virginia, which puts the
minimum living wage as $10.72 per hour..." [read more]
- The Cavalier Daily
more on the campaign at UVA
Feb 16, 2006 - UC employees appreciated
on V-day - "Students in the Lehigh Workers
Appreciation Committee served a Valentine’s Day
breakfast to show their appreciation for University
Center employees ... Members of the club, all dressed
in red, took turns covering the tables and greeting
the guests of honor..." [read more]
- The Brown And White
more on the campaign at Lehigh
Feb 14, 2006 - SLAP continues Demand for Workers Rights - Students at the University of Vermont, including more than 1200 who signed the Good Jobs @ UVM petition this past semester... [read more]
-The Vermont Cynic
more on the campaign at UVM
Feb
1, 2006 - Georgetown Silences Worker Voices
Using Campus Police - Today, students and workers
planned to interrupt the Advisory Committee on Business
Practices (ACBP) meeting to voice their dissatisfaction
with the committee's inaction, present their demands:
the right to organize a union and a living wage... [read
more]
- posted by Ashwini Jaisingh, aj94(at)georgetown.edu
more on the campaign at Georgetown
Dec 3, 2005 - Brief about WeCAN action:
At Ursinus College - (Collegeville, PA) We
Care About our Nation (WeCAN) is a budding human rights
organization that has become involved in the USAS network.
In our group we... [read more]
- posted by Dina Yarmus, diyarmus(at)ursinus.edu
more on the campaign at Ursinus
Nov 16, 2005 - U
of Mary Washington (Fredricksburg, VA)
- The main focus of the UMW living wage campaign right
now is pressuring the administration to support and
fulfill the recommendations reached by our Committee
on Compensation Issues. We won the ability to form this
committee last Spring... [read
more]
- posted by Adrienne Hagen, ahage5rg(at)umw.edu
Nov
14, 2005 - Bucknell
Univeristy (Lewisburg, PA) - We, the Catalyst
Collective, are fighting for workers rights in Central
Pennsylvania at Bucknell University. Last spring we
held a protest to support the 64 Bucknell dining services
employees who were in danger of losing wages and benefits
with the new dining services company... [read
more]
- posted by Amy Wollish, awollish(at)bucknell.edu
Nov 2, 2005 - Washington
College (Chestertown, MD) - We're working
on getting the campaign off the ground. We are currently
planning to organize some Worker's Breakfasts where
we serve coffee and donuts outside of the dining hall
during the early morning shift, just to let the workers
know we appreciate them. One of our... [read more]
- posted by David Hosey, dhosey2(at)washcoll.edu
Oct 19, 2005 - Vanderbilt
University (Nashville, TN) - Since its
formation in 2002, Living
Income for Vanderbilt Employees (LIVE) has been
dedicated to research, education, outreach, and action
in order to attain a living wage policy for all of Vanderbilt’s
full time workers. November 2004 saw the mid-contract
negotiations... [read
more]
- posted by Marion Coddou, marion.l.coddou(at)vanderbilt.edu
Apr 22, 2005 - Students,
Workers Win Big at Washington University - Jobs
With Justice press release - more
on Wash U
Apr 13, 2005 - 'Living
Wages' and Hunger Strikes - Inside Higher Ed
- more on Wash U
Mar 25, 2005 - GU
Protesters Savor Win -- and a Meal - Washington
Post - more
on Georgetown
Mar 21, 2005 - GU
Activists Go Hungry To Help Janitors - Washington
Post - more
on Georgetown
May 9, 2001 - Harvard,
students reach labor sit-in settlement - Associated
Press - more on
Harvard
Apr 19, 2001 - Harvard
Students Stage Sit-In ... Until Campus Staff Are Given
Raises - Boston Globe - more
on Harvard
Mar 20, 2000 - University
and SLAC Reach Agreement - The Gazette - more
on Johns Hopkins
Mar 16, 2000 - Student
sit-in backs workers' demand for living wage - Workers
World - more on
Johns Hopkins
Mar 2, 2000 - SLAC
steps up protests - Johns Hopkins News-Letter
- more on Johns
Hopkins
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