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Today marks the fifth day of a sit-in at Washington University held by Student Worker Alliance (SWA), a labor rights group, in protest of the low wages paid to the university’s workers. Student protestors have occupied Brookings Hall since Monday—the college admissions office—and they have pledged not to leave until the University creates a living wage program...
...campaign for a living wage began in November 2003, when University Chancellor Mark Wrighton rejected the recommendations of a self-appointed task force to raise employees’ wages...
...Living wage, the premise that a full-time worker should be able to afford housing and basic needs, is defined for the city of St. Louis as $9.79 an hour with full benefits. According to the protestors, groundskeepers and maintenance workers are currently paid about $8 per hour...
Student-based living wage campaigns are by no means new to American higher education...
...living wage was set in place at Harvard in the spring of 2001, following a sit-in held by the Progressive Student Labor Movement that culminated in the storming of Mass. Hall...