UW Madison, December 3: Film Screening: “Occupation: The Story of the Harvard Living Wage Sit-In”

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/mvfkvql

As the campaign for higher wages and job security at UW Madison continues to gather steam, join the Campus Worker Coalition for a screening and discussion of “Occupation,” a 2002 documentary about a successful living wage campaign led by workers and students at Harvard. What tactics and demands did it take to win meaningful victories for campus workers? What lessons can we learn from this struggle? How best can we force the administration to recognize that it’s time for UW Madison to invest in its workers?

FILM SYNOPSIS: “A dynamic story of how students and immigrant janitors took on—and defeated—one of the most powerful corporations in the world. At a time when the university’s endowment tripled and it enjoyed a more than $100 million budget surplus, Harvard busted unions and cut the pay and benefits of its lowest paid and most vulnerable workers. Occupation documents the historic three-week sit-in by the Harvard Living Wage Campaign which won unprecedented gains for low-wage workers at the world’s richest university, and catapulted the living wage movement to the center of national attention.”

42 min. Directed by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez. Narrated by Ben Affleck.