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FALL 2006: Living Wage Action Coalition Merges with Jobs With Justice! Feb. 16, 2007 - The merger with JwJ was proposed after many strategy sessions USAS and SLAP discussing the most effective to strengthen the student-labor movement. LWAC has now transfered into the Jobs With Justice national office and is working with JwJ and SLAP to create a plan to incorporate all of the amazing stories and tools that we've learned over the past year into their training curriculum. [read more] |
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SUMMER 2006: Living Wage Action Coalition gets support from a leading hotel website! Jul. 16, 2007 - A leading travel industry portal has agreed to pay all its staff a living wage! Every staff member will get at a minimum the average country wage in all countries in which they operate, and going up to 150% of the average wage for staff who are with the company over two years! LWAC hails the trend setters and implores other businesses to follow. Remember a higher wage means more of your company'smproducts will be sold enriching us all. [read more] |
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LWAC runs around
with the UVa Living Wage Campaign Apr
20, 2006 - Here I am, in the belly of the
beast, well at least one of them. I've spent the
last week and a half in Charlottesville, Virginia
working with the students in the Living Wage Campaign
at the University of Virginia. It's been an absolutely
incredible experience so far and I feel that there
is still so much more to come. The sit-in that
happened in the last week has galvanized the campus
in a way that people tell me is unprecedented
on these "grounds"... [read
more] |
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News from Campus Campaigns |
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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
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
 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
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
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..." [read more]
-Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Apr 15, 2006 - Casteen meets with 17 students in sit-in - "...According to Abby Bellows, a Living Wage Campaign student organizer, no concessions were made by the administration during the meeting..." [read more]
-The Cavalier Daily
Apr 13, 2006 - Students sit in to protest U.Va. minimum wage - "Cheered on byseveral 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
Apr 6, 2006 - 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
 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 UBuffalo Spectrum
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 Louisiana State University Daily Reveille
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
 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... yesterday for staging a protest in support for the Living Wage Campaign..." [read more]
-The Western Herald
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
 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
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
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
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
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
 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
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
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
 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
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
 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
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