Students SIT IN at William & Mary for Living Wages! Take action now

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Students SIT IN at William & Mary for Living Wages! Take action now


Take Action to support students sitting in for living wages at William & Mary!




Hey! This is Maggie from William and Mary's Living Wage Coalition, a USAS affiliate. We are occupied the President's Office beginning at 9:00 AM today because the administration is still being unresponsive to implementing living wages after 10 years of struggle! After over 15 meetings with the administration, and tons of rallies and creative actions, the administration has still failed to take any concrete steps to include living wages in next year's budget.

Please e-mail President Taylor Reveley right now, or call him at (757) 221-1693 and let him know that you support increased wages for William and Mary's lowest paid workers!

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Here's what you can say:

"Hey! My name is [name] and I'm from [college/university/affiliate]. After 10 years of workers and students uniting for increased wages, our community members can not wait one more day to be able to provide for themselves and their families. A living wage of $15/hour must be included in next year's budget. Poverty is unacceptable, and William and Mary must set a precedent for worker rights as a world-class institution!"

USAS groups are escalating their campaigns all over the country in the next two weeks, and we are at a historical point for student and worker power. With the recent "We Are One" rallies, which had over 1,000 different actions across the country, ground-breaking USAS campaigns, including Kick Out Sodexo, and workers and students uniting to take back our economies more than EVER, now is the time to make sure living wages at William and Mary become a reality! As a College in the South, we can set a precedent for worker rights in Right to Work states across the nation.

PLEASE contact President Reveley today and stand with students and workers as we make our FINAL PUSH of the semester for living wages!

When we fight, we win!

Maggie Russolello
W&M Living Wage Coalition
(845) 235-3862
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Emory Students Occupy President's Office: Take Action!


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The Spring Showdown continues! Emory students are occupying their university president's office: Email President Wagner and tell him to stop doing business with the worke rights abuser Sodexo! Then call him at 404-727-6013.

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My name is Andrea Nicholls and I am a student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Right now, we are occupying the Emory administration office to demand that President James Wagner 1.) terminate the university's contract with Sodexo and 2.) uphold its ethical values by raising Emory's employment standards for subcontracted workers. Over 100 students just rallied outside with MLK's nephew, Isaac Farris Jr., and state senator Vincent Fort.
Stand with us! E-mail President Wagner right now! Then call the President's office at 404-727-6013, or the Provost's office at 404-727-6055.

For updates throughout the day from Emory University and other student actions, keep checking the USAS Facebook page.

For more on student campaigns across the country against Sodexo, check out Kick Out Sodexo.

In solidarity,
Andrea Nicholls
Students and Workers in Solidarity
Emory University


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Tulane students are sitting in for worker rights- Take Action!


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Students at William & Mary and Emory University sat in yesterday. Today, Tulane students are occupying their president's office: E-mail President Cowen and tell him to end the contract with human rights abuser Sodexo; then call at 504-865-5201.


Hi Chris,

Just moments ago, I and other students began to occupy the President's office at Tulane University. For over a year and a half, students and workers have organized together in a campaign for living wages and fair working conditions here on the Tulane campus in New Orleans. We believe the time is now to urge the University to reconsider their contract with Sodexo in response to overwhelming evidence of the billionaire corporation's human rights violations and worker mistreatment locally and globally.

Take a minute to show your solidarity with students and workers and email President Scott Cowen, then call his office at 504-865-5201 to demand that the University stop doing business with Sodexo.

Here's what you can say:

Hi, my name is [name] and I'm from [college/university/affiliate]. I am calling to voice my concern that the University is contracting with Sodexo, a company notorious for its abuse of workers on both Tulane's campus and also worldwide. I urge you to end your contract with Sodexo immediately, and to pay living wages and raise labor standards for subcontracted workers at Tulane.


Tulane's students and workers have been uniting for living wages and respect on the job for over a year and a half, and we cannot afford to wait any longer for members of the Tulane community to be able to pay their rent while giving their children a healthy meal; feel safe to speak out about mistreatment on the job; and be given the respect and dignity they deserve, as human beings, as friends, and as members of the Tulane Community.

E-mail and Call President Cowen at 504-865-5201 and demand that the University finally end its contract with global human rights abuser Sodexo Corporation.

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For updates throughout the day from Tulane University and other student actions, keep checking the USAS Facebook page. For more on student campaigns across the country against Sodexo, check out Kick Out Sodexo.

Sincerely,

Keavy McFadden
Tulane Political Action Committee
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Chris, Sit-In at U. Wisconsin! Take action to stop UW's corporate takeover



E-mail U. Wisconsin Chancellor Martin to stop her handover of the U. Wisconsin to corporate control. Then call her office at 608-262 9946.

Students escalate their campaigns nation-wide to take back our economy!

Last night, Emory University arrested 7 students peacefully assembled in protest of the school's multi-million dollar contract with global worker rights violator, Sodexo. [Read more & take action!]

Last Thursday morning at 12:30am, the College of William & Mary handcuffed students as well, after a peaceful occupation of the president's office to support campus workers' campaign for living wages. [Read more & take action!]

21 Tulane University students held a sit-in Thursday to end the school's contract with Sodexo and guarantee campus workers' rights. The sit-in ended after administrators threatened sanctions and brought in police. [See video]
Take action to support students' sit-in at the University of Wisconsin.

Chris,

Right now, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking the Capitol protests against the attack on workers' collective bargaining rights to Bascom Hall, the university administration building, in light of Chancellor Biddy Martin and Governor Walker's plan to privatize UW-Madison. This proposal, called the New Badger Partnership, seeks to increase private funding for UW-Madison in response to a $125 million cut in state funding for the university, which will give corporations greater control over the university.

Please e-mail Chancellor Biddy Martin right now to say you stand with students protesting the New Badger Partnership, and then call her office at 608-262-9946.

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This public-private partnership, proposed by Chancellor Martin, has been used in the past to justify the busting of campus unions and privatization of food service at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID), a new building on campus built with state and private dollars. As if Scott Walker's attacks on public employees weren't enough, the university-wide expansion of the public-private partnership is yet another attack on public workers' rights.

In addition, university administration, especially Chancellor Martin, is pushing for the split of UW-Madison from UW-System. Severed ties with UW-System would seriously undermine the consideration and coordination of the needs of campuses across the state, which would threaten accessibility and quality of higher education for all current and future students in Wisconsin.

Worse yet, Martin's privatization scheme would lead to skyrocketing tuition, at a time when Governor Scott Walker has cut $250 million from the UW system.

The New Badger Partnership fits into a narrative of divestment from vital public services combined with increasing corporate control over the public sector. Take a minute to stand in solidarity with students and workers in Wisconsin by calling Chancellor Martin to say no to the de facto privatization of UW-Madison and attacks on workers' rights.

Beth Huang
Student Labor Action Coalition
University of Wisconsin, Madison




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If memory serves, USAS's campaign against Sodexo is in service of SEIU getting a national organizing agreement with said multi-services contractor. UNITE HERE has come out against this program, arguing that SEIU doesn't do a good job representing food service workers. (National locals, boiler-plate contracts, etc.)

Normally, I wouldn't step in the middle of what appears to be a macho turf-war between two unions, but UNITE HERE people have convinced me that SEIU has been running organizing campaigns doomed to fail as part of their national Sodexo strategy. As it was explained to me, SEIU runs a bad campaign at a university, gets some publicity, gets students to fight to "kick Sodexo off campus", gets some workers fired, then puts them on a speaking tour about how bad Sodexo is, without ever closing the deal and winning the union. Importantly, this turns a whole lot of workers off to the idea of ever having a union at all, what has been called "burning turf."

This information mainly comes from UNITE HERE, so judge it accordingly. But many wise people have no love for SEIU.