Subject:
A Sit-In for Jobs with Justice at Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:03:09 -0400 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@osu.edu> To: mlg-ics@andrew.cmu.edu A
SIT-IN FOR JOBS WITH JUSTICE
In support of Local 4501, Communications Workers of America, students have organized a sit-in in front of the office of President William Kirwan (Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall) at the Ohio State University. The sit-in began after a support rally for the CWA workers on Wed. April 26. Today is the third day of the sit-in. Hundreds of students, unionists, faculty, and community supporters have already taken part in the sit-in; our number is growing, and we shall not move until the OSU will meet all the demands of the CWA workers and negotiate a fair contract that respects the needs of the lowest paid OSU employees (two thirds of whom are people of color) that have been neglected for the last fifteen years! Current
OSU pay rates are 10-25% below the market, and one fourth of the Local
don't even make $8.00 per hour. One half earn less than $10.00. Many workers
of this academic sweatshop have to work more than one job to make ends
pay. The
While
the OSU workers' wages have lagged behind their counterparts' at comparable
institutions (adjusted for inflation, in fact, workers made more money
ten years ago!), the top OSU administrators have recently given themselves
gigantic raises. This is injustice! A flagship university in the state
of Ohio has come to behave like the greediest corporation. We, students,
demand that
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