Campus Workers' Voices
Living wage campaigns need to begin with workers,
and the campaign must be shaped around the concerns
and demands of the workers. On this page, you can find
out what workers said to students when they began talking
on various campuses.
Help Out! Please please, workers and
students, send us testimonials, interviews from your
own campus!! Worker testimonial projects are ideal for
getting workers' voices out in the press or in campaign
literature. Be absolutely sure to get permission from
workers to publicize their testimonial and change any
information that may give away their identities.
Notre Dame: A Notre Dame housekeeper
"tells it like it is" to a member of the Campus
Labor Action Project.
» Notre Dame
Dorm Housekeeper - her words, as told to a CLAP
member
Harvard University: The folks from
Harvard's living wage campaign have posted a huge collection
of workers' stories online. See:
» "Workers'
Words" - testimony from Harvard workers
» the old Harvard
Living Wage Campaign website (from the era of the
famed sit-in)
Georgetown University: Just a few
years before the national media noticed Georgetown students
hunger striking in solidarity with campus workers demanding
living wages, workers and students began building the
relationships that eventually led to a strong worker-student
alliance. Read a few of the workers' stories:
» Georgetown
Worker Testimonials
Miami University of Ohio: Students at Miami U of Ohio are working with campus workers and the union on campus to demand a living wage for all workers. The group, MU Students for Staff has really great relationships with some of the clerical workers (who are not unionized) and have compiled several of their testimonials on their website:
» Miami U of Ohio Worker Testimonials
Washington University in St. Louis: Students at WashU compiled workers' grievances with contracted companies on campus which document anything from unjust and unfair firings to poverty wages to lack of respect. Read more here:
» WashU Worker Testimonials
University of Miami: These stories and quotes come from UNICCO janitors at Miami who are currently in a struggle to form a union in order to secure better wages and benefits. Many of these workers are now on strike demanding that their union be recognized and one worker has even been fired for her pro-union work. Meet some of these Miami workers here:
» U Miami Worker Testimonials
» From the UNICCO employees on hunger strike at UM:
A UMiami worker speaks out during UNICCO janitors' strike and hunger strike
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