Title	Editorial
Date	1969-03-28
Creator	unknown
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics	Food service workers' strike, 1969
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This March 28, 1969, editorial from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), discusses the UNCG food service workers' strike of March 27-April 2, 1967, and calls on food service contractor ARA Slater to agree that activist employees would not be terminated. There had been some suggestion that agreeing to this one demand could have avoided the walkout. Some twenty-five largely minority workers went on strike 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 ARA Slater retained its contract with UNCG.
Type	text
Original format	clippings
Original dimensions	4" x 7"
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
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Object ID	CarolinanCRG.0826
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 What we got here is a failure to communicate. ARA wants to use the month of April to discuss the demands of the dining hall workers (but will begin "a new minimum wage for all hourly employees on our payroll at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, of $1.80 per hour" on April 5). The workers are willing to negotiate providing one of their demands is met now; that demand is that "no food service employee will be dismissed by ARA Slater Catering Service during the course of this action or any other time without proven justification. No employee of ARA Slater Catering Service will be otherwise harassed or intimidated by any management personnel." The meeting of this demand seems both reasonable and just to us. The workers on strike are making tremendous personal sacrifice; a sacrifice that many of their fellow workers are simply unable to risk. Common decency demands that every possible effort be made to settle this strike as soon as possible. ' We call on ARA to guarantee this simple, basic right of the strikers; and we call upon both sides to enter into negotiations immediately to settle this dispute. ARA was able to reach a settlement at A & T in less than three days; why should it take a full month at UNC-G? A multi-million dollar corporation can afford prolonged negotiations; our dining hall employees cannot. The workers' demands are so similar to those agreed upon at A & T that there is no moral justification for stalling negotiation.
OCLC number	884368447

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