A look back at the Manhattanville Struggle

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Student Worker Solidarity

SWS: Solidarity in the Snow

Workers and students demonstrate in the snow at Columbia University

Students and Workers Together

DEMONSTRATION  FEBRUARY 8, 2013. 

MEET AT THE SUNDIAL ON CAMPUS WALK AT 3:30

 MARCH AROUND CAMPUS TO FACULTY HOUSE 

THEN TO 116 AND BROADWAY FOR RALLY 

WITH THE UNION OF THE WORKERS.

Columbia University is systematically stealing tips and

wages from their workers at Faculty House – support

these workers in their negotiations for a new contract.

Faculty

House Rally

February 8th @ 3:30pm

Columbia University

116th and broadway

This fight is part of the global movement for jobs for

ALL at LIVING WAGES WITH BENEFITS.

Student -Worker Solidarity

Students Support Columbia Faculty House Workers

A TEACH-IN BY STUDENT WORKER SOLIDARITY WILL BE HELD JANUARY 25 AT 6PM IN HAMILTON HALL #602

Students Worker Solidarity marched to the Faculty House where workers were negotiating.

The workers who prepare catered meals for Columbia events and the dining room at the

Faculty House are demanding that they receive the gratuities which were removed from

their customary end of the year benefits.  Columbia now charges a 22% "Service Fee" instead of the Gratuity which was divided between workers in the past. (Sometimes as high as $2000 lump sum at the end of the year.) Instead, Columbia now keeps the funds which many faculty and other users assume (incorrectly!) are going to the workers.

The workers have had little increases in their wages and are forced to be laid off during school holidays (amounting to several months every year). They are not allowed to collect unemployment for their work as schools are exempt.

Workers are expected to pay for and clean their own uniforms, a considerable cost.

 There will be a teach-in on this issue this Friday, January 25. Location to be announced.

SCREENINGS OF THE VANISHING CITY

THE VANISHING CITY exposes the policies and economic philosophy behind
New York's finance dominated economy, the concentration of wealth, and
the process that has subsidizedluxury development and jeopardized the
social fabric of neighborhoods thathave always made New York unique.

The first screening is at:
Columbia University
Wednesday, May 9
at the Teachers' College in Russell 306 (part of the Gottesman Library)
from 7pm - 9pm
as part of the Coalition to Preserve Community
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Author, Saskia Sassen and,
Hip Hop Artist, Activist and Writer, Propaganda Anonymous
Free to the public. Make reservations online:
http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/viewfile/104801


The second screening is at:
The Catholic Worker
Friday, May 11  at 7:45pm
55 East 3rd Street
Between 1st and 2nd Avenue
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Joseph Bolanos, President of Block Association Landmark 76 and,
David Mulkins, Chair of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
Free Admission

THE VANISHING CITY events link:
http://www.thevanishingcity.com/events.html