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“Workers felt empowered by the sit-in,” Elfenbein says. “All of a sudden you had workers being interviewed by the media…and we were sensible enough to get out of the way and let them tell their stories.?...
Students benefited from the experience, size and credibility of unions. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s speech outside the sit-in to thousands of students, media and workers mobilized from throughout the area was national news.
And Sweeney’s negotiators helped broker a deal with administrators who had previously refused to consider any compromises to end the sit-in. ...
The call for $10.25 per hour became a powerful rhetorical slogan for the Living Wage Campaign at protests and during the sit-in in particular. PSLM members routinely said that if the University would simply adopt the living wage, the protests would stop.
In January, a Justice for Janitors rally was organized and run by workers, with students showing up to provide support rather than run the show. Elfenbein says the rally was a success rooted partly in PSLM protests and last spring’s sit-in....