Undergraduate Alliance for Student Worker Success

09/10/2024

Join us Friday! Our first interest meeting is Friday, September 13th at 6:00pm! We will meet in UC 336, the Cherokee meeting room on the 3rd floor of the UC. Come out and see what we’re all about!

09/02/2024

142 years ago, the first Labor Day was held as a STRIKE, in New York City. 103 years ago, the Battle of Blair Mountain ended. It was one the largest civil uprisings on American soil as workers fought for fair wages and safe conditions. We’ve come so far since then but we still have so far to go. Labor Union approval is at an all time high and yet across the country workers are being forced to operate in unsafe conditions for unfair wages; even laws against child labor have been rolled back. Celebrate today, but keep up the good fight.

08/18/2024

Way to go Ballyhoo 2024!

08/17/2024

Come meet us today at Valley Ballyhoo!!

05/01/2024

beautiful pictures from last year’s rally. this thursday, let’s come together again — even stronger & even louder — to demand palestinian liberation. 🇵🇸🍉

⚠️ a member of our board of trustees, daniel field, is complicit in this genocide. he is the GM & director of asheville’s new pratt & whitney plant. p&w has a contract — until 2031 — with the israeli ministry of defense to supply F-35 aircraft engine parts used to bomb civilians.
the WNC community does not need or want foot soldiers of the U.S. war machine in our universities, nor our economy.

FREE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸
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04/25/2024

we stand in solidarity with the columbia university students PEACEFULLY protesting the genocide in palestine!
• NO EXPULSIONS
• NO EVICTIONS
• NO ARRESTS
• NO BRUTALITY
• NO SILENCE!

this is extremely alarming for the future of student rights. the rest of the country may be forgetting or burying the genocide, but we will never forget.
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04/18/2024

‼️RSVP on engage!!!
hey y’all! our annual may day mixer is JAZZ & SWING themed!! we’ll be celebrating international workers’ day, the graduation of our current president aiás, and the appointment of our new president!! it will also be the LAST DAY to sign our petition‼️

we will have.. (FOR FREE..)
• a pasta bar (vegan & veg)
• tortellini kebabs
• desserts (vegan & veg)
• fruity mocktails! 🍸
• soda floats! 🍺 (vegan!)

AND..
• swing & jazz music
• dancing
• karaoke (maybe!)
• $1 polaroids!

costumes ENCOURAGED, but not required!

we are SO EXCITED to see you there! please be sure to RSVP on engage and let us know about any dietary restrictions/preferences. i ♡ you all; please do me the honor of seeing you again before i leave!

04/08/2024

⚠️ attention !! upcoming important meeting!
we didn’t get to have ANY meetings in march, so this one is super important! we’ll be talking about election, our plans for may day, finishing up our petition, and just getting tf back in the loop !! 😭😭😭

i really want as much input as possible on our may day plans. union leadership will be changing soon, so i’d love to see y’all! please consider attending!

03/13/2024

Justice for the 30,000+ martyrs who are no longer with us for the holy month of Ramadan. None of us are free until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸

02/28/2024

02/23/2024

HEADS UP! We find our petition to be 100% reasonable and THIS is why. Few students know this, but being employed by a public university means you also work for the state. It's only recently that a full-time employee is guaranteed $15/hr - because nobody wanted to work for anything less.

Part-time folks enjoy none of these benefits. Call me crazy, but facilitating the day-to-day of a university seems worthy of a dignified wage - full-time or part-time. (EVERYONE deserves a dignified wage!)

We're urging WCU to do right by their student employees and increase their wages to a minimum of $12: less than full-time, but equal to Aramark's starting wage. You can help us by signing our petition in our bio.

02/11/2024

Hey y’all! This Valentine’s Day, we’ll be out on the UC Lawn from 1-3pm handing out treats and handmade cards to our lovely student workers. Make sure to drop by and pick up some for yourself! 🩷

Not a student worker? No problem! We’ll be hosting a little interactive project with our petition, so whether you have or haven’t signed it, we’d like you to swing by and let us know why YOU believe WCU needs to Raise the Wage! We hope to put everyone’s reasons on a giant Valentine’s card showing just how many students want to see this change!

This will be an awesome opportunity to build solidarity with our student workers and it only takes a few seconds of your time. We hope to see you there! 🩷