MLK Jr. Memorial March!

Come Celebrate the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Leon Sullivan.

For more than year the Student Labor Action Project has been trying to get Temple University to speak up for contracted security officers and other non-Temple contracted workers and licensees.  For a year now, Temple University has ignored their call.   

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: Students and Workers Demand That Temple Keep Its Promise

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

The Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) is gravely concerned with the treatment of workers on our campus. The last three years have marred our campus with labor strife.

Over the last three years, we have worked with the Temple support staff that was fighting for good wages and benefits. These workers went months without a contract. We have seen Temple professors fighting for fairness. Currently, graduate employees are working without a contract. Perhaps most alarming of all, however, are the poor wages and benefits of other non-union, contracted employees. The difference between the way that Temple employees and subcontractors are compensated is stark and inexcusable. We suspect that similar condition exist for other subcontracted employees.

We are certain that the treatment of these workers, the treatment of workers who are in close contractual arrangements with our university, are unethical, unfair and can continue no longer.

Temple University is a signatory of the Global Sullivan Principles. Reverend Leon Sullivan is a hero not only to this institution, this community, this city but also the world. Temple University has promised to follow the standards laid out in those principles. However, we are certain that that promise has either been forgotten or intentionally ignored. It is our sincere intention to ensure that this great university does right by its promise and to the legacy of the Most Reverend Leon Sullivan.

To that end, the Student Labor Action Project and our student, community, faith and labor allies demand that a committee be created to oversee and enforce the Global Sullivan Principles (Global Sullivan Principle Enforcement Committee, GSPEC) on the day memorializing the death of Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 2006. Martin Luther King Jr., died opposing conditions some workers contractually engaged with Temple University currently experience. We hope that you take the small step of entering into the attached agreement with the Student Labor Action Project for the standards that Reverend Leon Sullivan lived for and Martin Luther King Jr. died for 38 years ago.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
March 23, 2006


Background Information

Student Labor Week of Action

March. 28th - April 4th

Temple University

 

 

Calendar of Events:

Workers and Students UNITE! In commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr.

April 4, 11:45- 12:45

Beginning at the NW corner of Cecil B Moore Ave and 12th St.

 

Workers, students, community members and people of faith march to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Leon Sullivan.   

WHAT'S AT STAKE

Tomorrow, we join together to celebrate this break through.  However, there is still more work to be done.  This dispute and other labor disputes over the last few years at Temple University should have been resolved with out so much suffering.  If Temple University had follow the code of conduct that it signed long ago, the Global Sullivan Principles, workers rights and welfare would have been addressed immediately.  Therefore, the Student Labor Action Project is demanding the creation of a new human rights committee at Temple University.  The Global Sullivan Principles Enforcement Committee (GSPEC), a body made up of students, workers and administrative representatives on Temple Campus would be tasked to insure that Temple University is keeping it promises.

To the demand that Temple University keep its promises, President David Adamany has responded in the past by refusing to meet with student activists, the new request for students to have some say in the enforcement of those promises has been meet with the same rejection.

Join us to celebrate the victory and demand further progress!  Stand up for students who are trying to create a way to insure human and worker rights at Temple University.