Faculty House Workers’ STRIKE VOTE SOLIDARITY MARCH

Faculty House Workers’

STRIKE VOTE SOLIDARITY MARCH

FRIDAY 3/8 @ 4PM. 116TH & BROADWAY GATES

Last Thursday, the Faculty House workers took a huge step in their campaign for justice by voting to authorize economic action, up to and including a strike.

NOW WE, AS STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND MEMBERS OF THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY NEED TO SHOW THAT WE WILL SUPPORT THE WORKERS IN WHATEVER ECONOMIC ACTION THEY CHOOSE TO TAKE!

Join SWS and the Faculty House workers as we march and rally to show that this fight isn’t over until the administration settles a fair contract!

We will meet at the 116th and Broadway gates at 4pm. We will then hear from faculty, students and workers as we march around campus and SPEAK OUT against the injustices at Faculty House.

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/573423722668025/permalink/573490279328036/?notif_t=like

VIDEO: Cross-class coalition-building at Columbia University

Check out this awesome video from Waging Nonviolence as Martyna Starosta examines the organizing happening between SWS and the Faculty House Workers: 

What does it take to organize across class lines? In the context of a nationwide revival of both labor struggles and student movements, students and workers at college campuses are increasingly having to find out. At Columbia University, students recently started to back a group of Faculty House workers who are fighting for a new contract. But what does solidarity mean at a university where students pay up to $60,000 a year, while campus workers can barely make ends meet? We hear from Osmond Cousin, who has been working as a chef at Columbia for the past 18 years, as well as Jane Brennan, an anthropology student who is one of the main organizers of the student-worker solidarity group. Cousin and Brennan share insights into how both groups have been building alliances in order to increase pressure on the university.