Washington University's admissions office was taken over by chanting students armed with leaflets and petitions on April 5, as members of the Student-Worker Alliance began an indefinite sit-in to demand better wages for the university's lowest paid workers, some of whom take home around US$9 an hour. The sit-in was timed to coincide with the university's annual open house for prospective students. On April 8, the AFL-CIO threw its support behind the sit-in. "We are here to stay", protester Joe Thomas told the St Louis Post-Dispatch, "We will be here 24 hours a day, seven days a week until the chancellor decides its better to pay his employees a living wage than to deal with us for another day."
From Green Left Weekly, April 13, 2005.
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