Resolutions

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.

We, the members of the UNC Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society, show solidarity with the workers of Smithfield Packing in their struggle for social and economic justice, and we support their right to unionize, the rehiring of unjustly fired workers, and the rights of all workers, undocumented or otherwise, to work under safe physical and environmental conditions, to be fairly compensated, and be treated with dignity and respect. Moreover, we support the worker's demands for Smithfield Packing to stop the victimization of its workers and the targeted firing of union supporters. The workers at Smithfield are fighting a historic battle in the broader struggle to organize the South, and we in UNC-CH SDS pledge our support to them in this just cause. We call on SDS chapters and all progressive students in North Carolina to join the December 2nd solidarity demonstrations called by the Justice at Smithfield Campaign

We, the members of the UNC Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society, stand by the Raleigh sanitation workers in their struggle for social and economic justice, and we support their demands for paid overtime, voluntary overtime, an end to manager harassment, the full time hiring of all temporary workers, and the right to organize.