National Organizations
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
Contact: Jen Kern
739 8th St. SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-547-2500
www.acorn.org
ACORN is tracking livable wage campaigns all over the US. Their web site contains highlights and contact information for these campaigns.
Economic
Policy Institute
1600 L Street NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
202-775-8810
www.epinet.org
EPI is a progressive think tank based in DC. They conduct research and analysis on the minimum wage, the growing gap between rich and poor and promote forward thinking public policy alternatives.
United for a Fair Economy
37 Temple Place,
2nd Floor,
Boston, MA 02111
617/423-2148
www.faireconomy.org
UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. UFE supports and helps build social movements for greater equality.
The Brennan Center
for Justice
Legal expertise on living wage campaigns
Political Economy Research Institute
Studies on the economic impact of living wage laws
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
National Lawyers Guild/Sugar
Law Center
Related Vermont Organizations & Links
Peer to Peer Collaborative
The Peer to Peer Collaborative is working towards a future in which livable jobs are the foundation of our companies, our economy and our communities. Peer to Peer Collaborative has been designed to assist founder CEOs in identifying, focusing on and addressing the critical issues and strategic direction choices that inevitably arise as their company grows within the $1 million to $10 million in sales range. We recognize the changing needs and complexities business owners face as they grow the sales and employee base of their company. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs who want to grow their company to the next stage of its development and want to learn how to be an even more effective CEO so that they and their employees can enjoy an even greater quality of life.
Vermont Health Care for All
Visit our VLWC Members page for more information on coalition members and
organizations!
Student Labor Groups
Campus Living Wage Campaign Sites
For more campus living wage websites and info go to campuslivingwage.org
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Students for Global Peace & Justice/Student Labor Action Project (SLAP)
For more info: contact Colin at 802-863-2345 x8
University At Buffalo, NY
University At Buffalo Students Against Sweatshops (UBSAS)
http://www.ubsas.org
A student based group that works on both local and national campaigns to assist worker struggles at home and abroad. They are affiliated with the national group United Students Against Sweatshops.
University of California Berkley
Students Organizing for Justice in the Americas
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~soja/
SOJA, Students Organizing for Justice in the Americas, is a multicultural, non-sectarian student group working for social justice. They struggle to organize, educate, and agitate about economic and social justice issues.
Colorado
College
Colorado College Fair Labor
http://studentwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~g_piescoputn/fairlabor/content/index.html
CCFL is a student-led group of concerned Colorado College community members who demand fair treatment for all on-campus workers. They have created major change motivating wage increases, winning the formation of a Labor Practices Committee and causing Colorado College to open bidding on its Sodexho contracts. They have plans to create a permanent living wage policy by the end of the year.
Earlham
College
Fair Wage Campaign
http://www.earlham.edu/~fairwage/
The Earlham Fair Wage Campaign is a group of students, faculty and staff, that believes all employees of the college (including subcontracted employees—i.e. Sodexho) deserve a fair wage.
Georgetown University, DC
Student Labor Action Project
http://www.georgetown.edu/svp/justemployment.html
After 3 years of organizing, 9 days of students on hunger strike, and 270 pounds lost, the University has agreed to pay a living wage to all campus employees, including contract workers.
Harvard
University
Progressive Student Labor Movement
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~pslm/livingwage/portal.html
The Living Wage Campaign, together with the unions represents and works for Harvard’s janitors and dining hall workers. A campaign to eradicate poverty wages at Harvard,, because workers can't eat prestige
Kent State University
Campaign for a Humane and New Global Economy
http://dept.kent.edu/stuorg/change/index.htm
CHANGE is a student organization at Kent State University working to protect workers' rights and stop corporate abuse
University of Kansas
UK United Students Against Sweatshops
http://www.uky.edu/~edhung0/
UKUSAS is part of an international coalition of local student organizations fighting for sweatshop-free labor conditions and workers rights. They have fought for these beliefs by demanding that universities adopt ethically and legally strong codes of conduct, full public disclosure of company information and truly independent verification systems such as the Worker Rights Consortium.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Graduate Employee Organization
http://people.umass.edu/geo/gp/events/a21.html
On April 21st 2005, The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) along with The Massachusetts Society of Professors, and Take Back UMASS stage a walkout and boycott to show support for; fair contracts for all campus unions, student control of student organizations, and no cuts in real wages or benefits for anyone campus along with other important issues.
Michigan
State University
Students for Economic Justice
http://www.msusej.org/
SEJ is an MSU Registered Student Organization working to support local, national, and international economic, labor rights, and human rights issues. Most importantly, working to monitor and expose the university's ties to sweatshop industries.
University of Michigan
Students Organizing for Labor & Economic Equality (SOLE)
http://www.umich.edu/~sole/
A strong activist group, fighting for social and economic justice. They fight hard, using direct action when necessary, to make the University a channel for supporting workers in struggle. Their strength comes from working with support workers who are connected to the University as employees of the University or as employees of firms that have contracts or accounts with the University. They plan to expand by organizing tenants in the community to stand up to greedy landlords.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.jwj.org/SLAP/SLACtivist/06-05.htm#unc
Workers at UNC-Chapel Hill are attempting to form a union as part of the Service Worker Solidarity Campaign, which involves a coalition of labor unions and student groups, including Service Workers United, SEIU, UNITE-HERE, the Student Labor Action Project and United Students Against Sweatshops. The campaign seeks to engage students in the fight for the rights of cafeteria workers to organize unions.
University of Notre Dame
Progressive Student Alliance
http://www.nd.edu/~psa/
The Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) opposes all forms of oppression and is working for social justice by raising awareness of social issues, cooperating with existing groups, empowering students, and encouraging action.
Princeton
University
Workers Rights Organizing Committee
http://www.princeton.edu/~speac/wroc.htm
WROC is a group of students, faculty, staff, religious leaders, and other members of the Princeton community dedicated to pressuring Princeton University to improve its treatment of low-wage workers.
Stanford
University
Stanford Labor Action Coalition
http://www.stanford.edu/group/slac/
A student group that believes in economic justice, and the right of the worker to a livable wage. In May of 2003, six Stanford students drank only water for a week during a hunger strike to demand that Stanford improve the working conditions of low-wage service workers at Stanford. This hunger strike was part the much larger campaign to educate Stanford students about the issues facing low-wage workers on campus and to ask the Stanford administration to take concrete steps to address these issues.
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore Living Wage and Democracy Campaign
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/living_wage/index.html
They are a coalition of mostly Swarthmore students working in solidarity with staff and faculty. They believe that all Swarthmore staff deserves a wage that will allow them to support themselves and their families, without getting government assistance or working additional jobs.
Washington University, St. Louis
Student Workers Alliance
http://www.restech.wustl.edu/~pac/
Students demanded that the university adopt a code of conduct that supports living wages and the right to organize for all workers. After 19 days, the sit-in and hunger strike ended with commitments of $1 million towards increasing worker salaries and to join the WRC.
Wesleyan
University
United Student Labor Action Coalition
http://www.wesleyan.edu/uslac/ancientindex.htm
After having occupied Wesleyan's admissions office from Tuesday April 4 2000 at noon until Wednesday April 5 at 9:30pm (33 hours), Wesleyan students declared victory in their fight for workers' rights on campus.
The Student Labor Action Committee at Johns Hopkins University
SLAC is a group of students, faculties, and local activists concerned about labor and social justice issues. SLAC has been leading the Living Wage Campaign at Hopkins since 1996.
Article by Professor on University of Virginia LW
Living Wage Manual for Campus Activists from United for A Fair Economy
Union Links
National Education Association (Vermont NEA)
Vermont State Employees' Association (VSEA)
UE Vermont - The USA's Independent, Rank-and-File Union
Southwestern Vermont K-12 support staff at the Bennington Battle Day Parade August 2003.
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