STUDENT LABOR WEEK OF ACTION
March 28-April 4, 2010
STUDENTS & WORKERS UNITE!
Addressing Our Shared Crisis Through Collective Action
From March 28 to April 4, students and workers across the country are
uniting on campuses and communities across the country to fight for jobs and
education. A wide coalition of student, youth, and labor organizations are
coming together to demand:
Access to HIGHER Education:
- Student aid reform - The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA)
- Passage of the DREAM Act and advancing policies that ensure students who work hard enough to get into college have the financial resources to complete their degree unhampered by costs
- A stop to the cuts in higher education that are disproportionately impacting working people, students, and families across the country.
Good, SUSTAINABLE Jobs:
- A strong and vibrant program to create badly needed jobs. Legislation like the "Put America to Work Act of 2009" is a good starting point, but
we demand that Congress do more and act now.
- Through the Campaign for Fair Food* and similar organizing efforts, we come together to demand that companies do their part to create better working conditions and opportunities for many of the most vulnerable workers in our economy.
- Transforming "bad jobs" into good, family-sustaining jobs by giving workers the freedom to join unions and bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions by passing legislation like the *Employee Free Choice Act.
To take part in the NSLWoA, please fill out the form below or call SLAP Coordinator Maria Escobar at 202.393.1004 x226. Remember, we are building a student movement that will challenge existing power structures to create the change we want to see in our world. Become that change, organize!
