Solidarity with Striking Workers at University of Minnesota

We, the Students for a Democratic Society of Chapel Hill, express our complete support for the University of Minnesota's clerical, technical and healthcare workers' struggle for a fair contract and a living wage. In this struggle, between worker and management, we commend the efforts of the AFSCME, striking workers and UMN students. We implore the University to end its corrupt wage inequalities by guaranteeing its underpaid and hardworking employees a respectful, honest, and fair contract. All government institutions should guarantee their employees a wage that allows them to support their families while avoiding the corporate style of salary degradation between management and worker. As concerned students involved in campus labor battles at UNC, we find the UMN strike necessary and unquestionably honorable. We furthermore commend the UMN SDS chapter for undertaking a hunger strike and putting themselves on the line to support the workers at their university. What is needed here is justice, fairness and equality. All workers at UMN, at all universities, and throughout the United States deserve these rights.

Solidarity forever,

UNC-Chapel Hill SDS