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Living Wages NOW for Campus Workers! |
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The people who make our schools run are routinely exploited: often, they face 90-hour work weeks divided among two or three jobs; they face days and months without seeing their children or spouses; they face medical emergencies without health care; and they face evictions and homelessness. No one should face these circumstances. Workers are fighting back, and we're there to support them.
Many USAS affiliates have long worked to support workers on campus and in
the surrounding community. As a result of this work, USAS initiated an
exciting effort to bring together campus living wage and campus worker
solidarity campaigns across the country in a coordinated effort to force
our schools to ensure living wages, decent working conditions, and the
right to organize on our campuses. Dozens of schools have been forced to adopt living wage policies after successful student and worker organizing; and dozens of other campaigns are currently underway.
The National Campus Living Wage Campaign has involved organizing and mobilizing students across the country to fight for living wages on their campuses.
The campaign serves to build both personal relationships and power, as it unites students and workers as an unstoppable force within the campus community. Students have won major living wage victories at colleges and universities across the country, from American University to the University of California-Riverside,
and from Johns Hopkins University to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
USAS' campus community solidarity work uses the power of students to improve the lives of workers on their very own campuses.
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