UNITED STATES: Students on hunger strike

March 23, 2005
Issue 
620
World

On March 19, 22 Georgetown University students entered their sixth day of hunger strike, demanding the university pays all its workers a living wage. Under university regulations, subcontracted janitors must be paid US$8.50 an hour. One janitor, Sylvia Garcia, had to ask her son to drop out of high school to work to help pay bills. He also works as a janitor at the university. "We are very happy that the students have decided to help us", Garcia said, "because no-one will listen to us. The university has to listen to the students." To help, visit .

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