At Discourse.net Professor Froomkin reports that 20 students have taken over the Ashe Administration Building at the University of Miami and asks why is Donna Shalala afraid of Father Frank Corbishley?
The SEIU led strikers are demanding better pay, healthcare benefits and union representation. God knows UM charges enough for tuition.
Below the fold are some of the new stories and what little info I posses. After you read it, go visit Professor Froomkin's blog for the on site play by play. He has several entries on the strike.
More from the Miami Hearld
UM students stage sit-in at administration building in support of janitors strike
To show support of the University of Miami janitors strike, about 19 students began a sit-in in the administration building about noon today.
Jacob Coker-Dukowitz, a junior at UM, said: 'We are sitting in because the university refuses to honor workers' rights and dignity consistently. This is about President Shalala not respecting that right, and Unicco not respecting that right.''
Coker-Dukowitz said he and the 18 other students plan to engage in sit-in as long as necessary.
I have it on good authority that Associate Dean Donna Coker's son is named Jacob, but I do not know if the Jacob Coker-Dukowitz is one and the same.
I feel like I am having a flashblack.
The local CBS station reports that the service company, UNICCO Service Co.
has publicly refused to allow the janitors to choose a card-check election; instead they have embarked on anti-union campaign to intimidate workers from organizing with Local 11 and insisted that the janitors subject themselves to a NLRB election that could take years.
I should add that Froomkin reports that the water, the wireless internet transmitter at the administration building and and the bathrooms have been shut down by the school.