WROC RALLY: THURSDAY 10/18 HUGELY SUCCESSFUL: OVER 200 WORKERS, STUDENTS, FACULTY AND MEMBERS OF THE PRINCETON COMMUNITY RALLIED FOR COLA, A FAIR WAGE AND AGAINST PROBLEMS WITH PFP (WHIG HALL)

WROC Response to 9/12 Administration Statement

Although WROC had great hopes for Princeton University's new Tilghman-Gutmann administration, over the past several weeks and most recently at the 10/8 University Council meeting they have shown themselves to be just as stubborn as their predecessors on their insistence that Princeton's lowest-paid workers receive "market" wages, not fair wages. In light of this, WROC is calling on all concerned undergraduate and graduate students, workers, faculty, alumni, and community members to gather at NOON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 to show the President and Provost that the Princeton Community supports fair wages, COLA's, and a real end to outsourcing.

Please Post:
Rally Poster
Special Flyers:
Community Poster (for townsfolk)
Nick's Worker Flyer (for workers)
Spanish Language Flyer
Preliminary Rally Poster #1
Preliminary Rally Poster #2
Preliminary Rally Poster #3

WROC is a group of students, faculty, staff, religious leaders, and other members of the Princeton community dedicated to pressuring Princeton University to improve its treatment of low-wage workers.

WROC has enormous support among the Princeton community – we’re backed by hundreds of students and workers as well as over 90 Princeton faculty members. We’ve met with the administration on several occasions, and held major rallies on campus – including the huge Alumni Day rally which drew more than 300 people to Firestone Plaza, and the WROC THE PRIORITIES COMMITTEE rally featuring State Senator Shirley Turner, English Professor John Fleming, COLA MAN (representing the dining hall workers who were on-the-job during the rally), and a bevy of janitors, building services workers, and library assistants.

On March 7, the University produced its first substantive response to WROC – a deal on casual workers that will help some of Princeton’s lowest-paid workers. The University referred the rest of WROC’s proposals to the Priorities Committee, a University body which made recommendations in early May.  The Priorities Committee ignored WROC's proposals.  Details of the University's implementation of the Priorities Committee report are currently being decided and WROC is in the process of meeting with administrators to learn about these.