Labor Justice Project at Cal

Who's ready to talk about economic justice?? Come out to THE LABOR JUSTICE PROJECT at Cal's meeting this WEDNESDAY at 8pm in 591 Barrows!

It's CRUNCH TIME. Join us on August 21st for a Children & Families March for the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights! http://on.fb.me/OmgElB

"U.C. Workers Protest as Negotiations Begin with Campus." Check out the Daily Cal coverage of yesterday's AFSCME workers picket to kick off the first day of bargaining! Students came out to show support for workers demanding a fair contract and just working conditions for campus service workers!

“We’re trying to get the UCs to see that we want them to stop raising student fees. We want them to stop cutting from the bottom, and start cutting from the top,” Stokes said. “We’ve been doing more with less, and we just can’t provide quality service with all of these cuts.” - Eugene Stokes, campus maintenance worker.

http://www.dailycal.org/2012/06/20/uc-workers-protest-negotiations-university-begin/

The Daily Californian - Berkeley's Newspaper UCWednesday, June 20, 2012UC workers protest as negotiations begin with campusBy Sohan Shah | StaffLast Updated 9 hours Ago Tweet Comment0 Related Posts Protesters and union workers march to Tang Center, UCOP for Day of Action UC reaches new pension, health care agreement with union Univ...

The LJP core crew minus a few important people--Marco, Francisco and Joel.

Wonderful people working hard for worker justice.

Roll with LJP to the Marcha por Dignidad and Resistencia in Oakland for MAY DAY!

Planning meeting for campus worker actions on MAY DAY this Wednesday at 6PM in AFSCME office 2532 Durant Avenue. See you there!

Did you know that U.C. Berkeley collegiate apparel is produced in sweatshops where workers face subpoverty wages, exploitative and dangerous working conditions, and intimidation and violence when they try to organize? THERE IS A SOLUTION! Check out this video about the Designated Suppliers Program--an anti-sweatshop law that was APPROVED by the UC system but has YET to be implemented! Join Labor Justice Project at Cal as we fight for justice for workers and working families on campus and throughout the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=punQdadWByI&feature=youtu.be

End the Race to the Bottom: DSP Now!

44 years ago today, members of AFSCME Local 1695 marched through Berkeley in support of the Memphis Sanitation strike and in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated days earlier while organizing for the strike.

From The Daily Californian archives:

44 years ago today, members of AFSCME Local 1695 marched through Berkeley in support of the Memphis Sanitation strike and in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated days earlier while organizing for the strike.

(Photo by Mike Lovas)

See more from our archives here: http://bit.ly/yDKIj0

Want a PAID summer internship working within the labor movement? Check out the Student Leadership Academy at UCLA!

http://labor.ucla.edu/minor/SLAforStudents.html

SLA for Students The UCLA Labor Center serves as an important source of information about unions and workers to scholars and students.

Check out what campuses in the United Students Against Sweatshops network did across the country did for the national Week of Action for campus workers!

http://usas.org/campaigns/campus-worker-justice/

Campus Worker Justice Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Atlanta, Georgia 1963. SNCC set the stage for a Southern youth movement that would rock the national civil rights movement with civil disobedience actions across...