The Tompkins County Workers’ Center/Jobs with Justice is very pleased to report the success of the student-community campaign to win a living wage for over 100 food service workers at Ithaca College. Beginning in September, according to an announcement by Ithaca College and the Sodexo Corporation, these workers will be paid at least the Tompkins County Living Wage, currently $11.11/hour. Those IC dining workers paid presently above the Living Wage, will see a commensurate increase as well.
Workers currently are paid as little as $8.19/hour, so the increase will total over 35 percent!
The Workers’ Center commends the Ithaca College administration for its responsiveness to the student demands and community concern. But we mostly applaud the determined Ithaca College-based student group, the Labor Initiative Promoting Solidarity (LIPS), which began raising the issue of a Living Wage for all workers at Ithaca College in the fall of 2010. These students helped mobilize student and faculty support and built a powerful case that the Ithaca College administration could not ignore.
The Workers’ Center worked closely with the students and mobilized community support to help build a community coalition that brought substantial pressure
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