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GUEST ROOM | The Cornell Community Stands with Striking UAW 2300 Workers

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Dear Cornell Administration,

On Sunday, Aug. 18, Local 2300 of the United Auto Workers called a strike of full-time service and maintenance workers at Cornell. Cornell workers tried to avoid escalation through good-faith bargaining — but the greed and intransigence of the administration has left our full-time workers with no choice. Now, students, faculty, staff and the entire Cornell community are worse off because the administration refuses to work toward a fair contract. The UAW is asking for a 20 percent raise to establish a $24/hour living wage for all workers, a cost of living adjustment for their wages, no-cost parking and steps to address unsafe working conditions.

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WILSON | On Strike for a REAL Offer

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Instead of reviewing other areas of its supposedly-meager spending budget, Cornell has decided to find out how well the University functions without the people who take out the trash, mow the grass and cook the food on our campus.

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KUMAR | Cornell Won’t Stand by Its Workers — so We Will

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Cornell University does not care about you. 

No matter what work you do for the University, how high your grades are or how much you sacrifice to pay that tuition bill, the leaders of this institution do not care about us. They don’t care about their students, their workers or the people of Ithaca. They only care about lining their pockets, propping up a façade of progressivism and appeasing their billionaire trustees. But now, it’s finally time to cut the crap. Our workers, with a strong mandate from the national UAW and workers across the country, are not standing for it any longer.