Bascom Hall Sit-In

press release: Join hundreds of your fellow graduate workers taking action to win fair pay, full fee relief, and quality, consistent policies! Sit in at Bascom -- sign the pledge now: https://bit.ly/pledgeTAA

We call on the administration to:

1) Pay graduate workers a living wage

2) Provide full relief from mandatory fees for graduate workers

3) End the discriminatory international student fee

4) Approve clear, consistent, and quality policies and procedures for graduate workers

5) Train administrators on the new policies and procedures for graduate workers

6) Create a standing committee with graduate workers to improve policies and procedures for graduate workers

We are sitting in at Bascom Hall on April 5 to demand the administration address these issues. Their perennial calls of “we’ll look into it” and “it’ll be done soon” are offensive to the thousands of workers in their employ: workers who have to choose between feeding their families and paying segregated fees, workers who have had no contract for a decade, workers laboring under inconsistent policies which offer thin protection against overwork or sexual misconduct.

We demand a change, now. If the administration does not respond to our demands on April 5, we will escalate further. By standing together as one — all grad workers, all departments, all across campus and beyond — we will win. The university works because we do!