Statement in Solidarity with Campus and City Workers

This statement was read at a press conference on Thursday September 12 at the Pit.

We, UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society, are here today to honor the unbreakable link between students and workers. We are here in solidarity with the demands of UE150 and Chapel Hill/Carrboro workers for the University to halt its censorship of demands for collective bargaining. In addition, we demand that UNC administration support efforts of collective bargaining and engage in non-interference with unionization efforts. SDS is also here putting out the call to other students to join in this struggle against the blatant denial of workers’ rights. These workers drive our buses, clean our dorms and feed us everyday. This university works because they do. We as students need to support the workers in their internationally undisputed right to collective bargaining. Therefore, we join UE150's demands:

• That the censored article immediately be published on the COVER of the Gazette

• That the University send the censored article to all students, alumni and other University constituencies

• And that there is a written apology in the Daily Tar Heel so that the entire University community can be informed and encouraged to discuss the article on collective bargaining

UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society
September 12, 2007