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UC Berkeley custodians protest sub-poverty wages and workload doubling
On Thursday, September 14, 2006, around 3:30 pm, about 100 UC Berkeley custodians and their supporters protested on campus in order to demand living wages and to end worload doubling. Demonstrators marched from Lower Sprould Hall to California Hall to voice their frustration.
On Thursday, September 14, 2006, around 3:30 pm, about 100 UC Berkeley custodians and their supporters protested on campus in order to demand living wages and and end to worload doubling. Demonstrators marched from Lower Sprould Hall to California Hall to voice their frustration.
Here is an excerpt from one of the announcement fliers that supporting organizations were distributing throughout the community: "While UC Berkeley announces a record fundraising year and an increase in their state budget, they pay poverty wages and refuse to adequately staff custodians. The UC is now hiring a Vice
Chancellor for Equity. Since we custodians have the greatest firsthand knowledge of inequity: WE'D LIKE TO APPLY" (their emphasis).
The custodians collectively made the decision to go public with their demands and were supported by their union, AFSCME Local 3299, worker's/labor rights activists, and UC Berkeley student groups.
The marchers rallied in front of California Hall where they delivered approximately 30 custodians' applications for the Vice Chancellor for Equity position. During the rally, custodians and labor organizers shared their thoughts with fellow demonstrators and chanted slogans such as "No Justice! No Peace!" and "Si Se Puede!"
Here are some related links:
Excerpt from fliers that protestors distributed: AFSCME flier
Data I compiled from the U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics: Bay Area Labor Stats
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i was told that the link to "Bay Area Labor Stats" is faulty. here is the corrected link
http://www.freewebs.com/thaillest59/CPIvsWages%5FBayArea.pdf
http://www.freewebs.com/thaillest59/CPIvsWages%5FBayArea.pdf
Thanks for covering this, Nathan! We've been working with AFSCME 3299 for some time now in Santa Cruz and it's nice to see other UC students gettin' active as well :)
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