Title	Editorial
Date	1969-03-29
Creator	unknown
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics	Food service workers' strike, 1969
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This March 29, 1969, editorial from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), comments on the UNCG food service workers' strike of March 27-April 2, 1967. The editorial questions how long the strike will continue, notes the involvement of UNCG students, urges that order be maintained and that the rights of of players be preserved, and suggests that financial support for striking workers is a student responsibility. Some twenty-five largely minority workers walked out based on specific complaints related to pay rates, working hours, overtime provisions, wage reviews, breaks, severance requirements, and dismissal requirements, and there was also a student boycott of the cafeteria. The strike was resolved with some concessions, and food service contractor ARA Slater retained its contract with UNCG.
Type	text
Original format	clippings
Original dimensions	4" x 7.5"
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	The Carolinian (Civil Rights Clippings)
Finding aid link	The full run of The Carolinian, from which this article is taken, is available online at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/Carolinian
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	CarolinanCRG.0848
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
Full text	editorial At press time it is impossible to predict how long the strike against ARA Slater will continue. It is easier to predict the outcome; the employees demands are so similar to other recent settlements (identical to those at A&T) that no one anticipates that the final settlement will differ radically from worker demands. ARA Slater is a multi-million dollar corporation quite capable of.surviving a prolonged workstopage at any school it caters for; without student-aid, management is holding the trump card—striking workers aren't paid. After Thursday it has become evident that this student body isn't going to sit still for Slater playing that card. Thursday afternoon a special session of Student Legislature passed a resolution supporting the workers demands; an hour later 650 students attended a mass meeting most agreed to boycott the dining halls Friday. For the first time in recent years, perhaps since UNC-G was designated a University, rank and file of the student body have risen spontaneously to meet a pressing crisis. Until the strike is settled each student and each worker bears a tremendous responsibility; order must be maintained as should the rights of those individuals who hold divergent opinions. Any action which could lead to outside intervention should be prevented. Any every possbile possibility for an early, yet fair, settlement should be explored. Responsibility demands that both sides begin negotiations now. Meanwhile it is up to the student body to somehow equalize the monetary gap between ARA and its employees.
OCLC number	884368216

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