Top 10 “Consequences” of Big Labor on College Campuses

[Omaha Steve]

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Top 10 “Consequences” of Big Labor on College Campuses

While the House Education & the Workforce Committee holds hearings on the potential impact of organizing on college campuses, the reality is, it’s already happening. All over the country. All the time. Here are some of the real “consequences”:

Service Workers Are Bring Treated Fairly And Paid Living Wages Service workers have formed unions at Georgetown University and hundreds of other campuses.

Adjunct Professors Don’t Die In Poverty A long-time Duquesne adjunct faculty members died of a heart attack after working a fast food job to supplement her income as a professor, sparking an organizing campaign.

Graduate Teaching-Assistants Can Afford Continued Education and Health Insurance TAs at New York University and UCONN recently joined tens of thousands of America’s best and brightest as unionized teaching and research assistants at more than 60 prestigious campuses including UC Berkeley, Michigan, Washington and Wisconsin.

Colleges End Support of Sweatshop Labor Students at over 150 schools have organized chapters of United Students Against Sweatshops and less collegiate apparel is manufactured in abusive, dangerous sweatshop conditions .

Cafeteria Workers Are Allowed Sick Days Simmons College and Lesley University workers win paid sick leave through their union.


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[bettyellen]

1. Food for thought- thanks for posting!