University Temps Join OBU

On Monday, March 12th, at 10:00 AM, wobbly temp workers (EWIU620-IWW) at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business confronted management and presented demands calling for health care access, wage improvements, full-time work status, and an electable/recallable manager, among other job-site improvements. This move brings to fruition a months-long, under-the-radar campaign being carried out by University of Michigan employees and the IWW to organize temporary workers and the unrepresented at the University of Michigan; A campaign greatly assisted by the contributions of the university chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, who are conducting a labor solidarity effort organize students on campus (many students being temp workers themselves) in support of the campaign. As part of that campaign, we in the IWW and in UM-SDS are asking other groups around the country for some much needed solidarity. When we presented our demands on management Monday, we starteda nation-wide call-in and email-in to try and add a little more pressure to the pot and bring the boss to the negotiating table.The following scripts have been prepared for the email/phone-in, and can similarly be adapted for email as well. Feel free to make adjustments as needed, but remember to remain cordial, as we are trying to pressure them to the negotiating table, not alienate them. If you can send an email and make a call, you'll contribute twice as much. ;)Please address emails supporting the campaign as follows :TO: edadams@umich.eduCC: rjdolan@umich.edu, cvisel@umich.edu, greendan@umich.edu