Living Wage Campaign protests Board meeting
By Sara Rourke | February 21, 2013Members of the Living Wage Campaign mockingly greeted members of the Board of Visitors outside their meeting at the Harrison Institute Thursday morning, pretending to represent an organization entitled “Students and Corporations United” and congratulating the Board’s “labor streamlining” practices for University employees. The Living Wage Campaign, which garnered national attention last February when several members began a hunger strike in an effort to encourage the University to raise its minimum wage from $10.65 an hour to $13 an hour, offered Board members flowers, boisterous applause and various certificates or awards in feigned appreciation of the Board’s treatment of University workers. “[Board members] wield an immense amount of power over the lives of thousands of people here,” said Arts & Sciences Graduate student David Flood, a member of the campaign.
