CAL Student Worker Blitz Week

CAL STUDENT WORKER BLITZ WEEK

WHAT: Student Worker Action Group (SWAG), an organization formed by UC Berkeley student food services workers, is having a series of public events bring attention the fact that Cal students working for Cal Dining are paid over $2 less per hour than their coworkers, and to call for pay equity at UC Berkeley.

WHEN: Monday, April 30, 2007 through Friday May 4, 2007. A more detailed schedule follows.

WHO: UC Berkeley student food service workers and their supporters who feel that it is unfair for Cal students to be paid over $2 less per hour than their coworkers doing the same job.

WHERE: UC Berkeley Dining Commons and Campus Restaurants, including Foothill (2700 Hearst Ave), Clark Kerr (Warring St.), Crossroads (Channing Way and Bowditch St.), Unit 3 (Durant Ave and Dana St.) and Golden Bear Café (Sproul Plaza), as well as Sproul Plaza.

STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR SOMETHING: “EQUAL PAY, TODAY!”

MONDAY : Informational picketing outside of Foothill Dining Commons (corner Hearst Ave and Gayley Rd./La Loma Ave), 5:30-7pm

20% Strike at Crossroads Dining Commons, 5-8PM



TUESDAY: 20% Strike Tabling at Golden Bear Café, 11-1pm

20% Strike at Crossroads and Foothill Dining Commons, 5-8pm.

Informational Picketing outside Crossroads (corner of Channing Way and Bowditch St.), 5:30pm-7pm



WEDNESDAY: SPECIAL SURPRISE AT GOLDEN BEAR CAFÉ (SPROUL PLAZA), 12pm-1pm

Informational Picketing outside of Unit 3 DC (corner of Durant Ave and Dana St.), 5:30-7pm.


THURSDAY: Informational Picketing outside Clark Kerr (Warring St.) 5:30pm-7:00 pm


FRIDAY: SUPPORT RALLY ON SPROUL PLAZA, 2pm