STUDENT ACTION WITH WORKERS PRESENTS
"UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE"
A PHOTO EXHIBIT ON THE HISTORY OF LABOR RIGHTS AT UNC - CHAPEL HILL

Mike Hachey
hachey(at)email.unc.edu
937-238-8072

Sascha Bollag
sbollag(at)email.unc.edu
919-923-5973
For immediate release

The history project on display

(Chapel Hill, NC - 11/21/05) - At 8am on Monday, November 21st, student activists with Student Action with Workers, a labor support organization at UNC-Chapel Hill and a chapter of United Students against Sweatshops, will assemble an art exhibit in South Building entitled, University of the People. This exhibit features photographs from both historic and current labor struggles on campus and explores issues of representation, equality, and justice.

This exhibition honors the struggles of UNC workers who have campaigned for decades for dignity, racial and gender equality, and economic justice. We have set up this exhibit to highlight an important aspect of our history that has been suppressed by the University. As workers continue to organize across campus today, they are again facing intimidation and harassment from the University and its subcontractors. We demand that the Chancellor publicly affirm:

"The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will adopt a policy of noninterference in any unionization process and will require all contractors to adopt the same policy. The University affirms the right of workers to democratically organize unions by a method of their own choosing. We will honor any agreement negotiated between contractors and their employees."

The exhibition will be moved to the Rotunda of the Law School at 4pm on Tuesday to be shown at the event Strategies for Improving the Wages and Working Conditions of Low-Waged Workers, a panel discussion featuring John Edwards. It will then return to South Building on an ongoing basis.

Student Action with Workers
http://www.uncsolidarity.org saw(at)unc.edu