So, I wanted to rant about this, and this subreddit seems to be the perfect place to discuss this. At an unnamed major university in the south, student workers here are paid 7.25 still, far below the salaries of other major research institutions and even farther behind local restaurants IN the town the college is in.
I’m in student govt here, and tonight, legislation was proposed for our student govt org to support the IDEA of raising student workers’ wages and to begin dialogue with university administration about the feasibility of such increases.
Needless to say, our student government, who is sworn to uphold the interests of the very constituents that would be positively impacted by such policies, voted overwhelmingly not to pass this piece of legislation. I’m just so frustrated that something so obviously good would be turned down BY STUDENTS. What are y’all’s thoughts on it?