To: Wim Wiewel, Portland State University President
Portland State University: Stop Paying Poverty Wages!
Poverty State University has a president that makes almost $700,000 a year in pay and benefits while many workers on campus are paid poverty wages. Demand that President Wim Wiewel and the Poverty State University Board of Trustees pay all workers on campus at least $15 an hour!
Why is this important?
The Poverty State University Campus-Community Fight for $15 is working to unite and coordinate union workers, non-union, and student workers to fight for a $15 minimum wage on the Portland State University campus!
Workers at PSU are struggling with food and housing insecurity now. Workers need a raise now, not in six years!
We are demanding the following from PSU President Wim Wiewel and the PSU Board of Trustees:
1. We demand a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers, including contract workers.
According to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, the current living wage in Portland is $23.11 for one adult with a child. Due to rising housing costs and low vacancy rates, many of our community members are fighting to have basic necessities like food and shelter on low wages.
2. We demand a transparent and accountable public process to ensure economic equity on campus.
In the U.S., for every dollar a White man makes, a Black man makes 75 cents, and a Latina makes 53 cents. We demand that the Portland State Office of Equity and Compliance release a statement in support of equal pay, and creates policies and procedures to document, reduce, and then eliminate inequitable pay gaps due to race or gender on campus.
3. We demand that the PSU Administration stop threatening student activists.
Students do not lose their rights to free speech when they enroll in college. The right to join with fellow Portlanders in protest or peaceful assembly is critical to a functioning democracy and is at the core of the First Amendment. PSU does not have the right to threaten student activists and must stop these threats immediately.
Join us in our fight for a living wage at Poverty State University!
Workers at PSU are struggling with food and housing insecurity now. Workers need a raise now, not in six years!
We are demanding the following from PSU President Wim Wiewel and the PSU Board of Trustees:
1. We demand a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers, including contract workers.
According to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, the current living wage in Portland is $23.11 for one adult with a child. Due to rising housing costs and low vacancy rates, many of our community members are fighting to have basic necessities like food and shelter on low wages.
2. We demand a transparent and accountable public process to ensure economic equity on campus.
In the U.S., for every dollar a White man makes, a Black man makes 75 cents, and a Latina makes 53 cents. We demand that the Portland State Office of Equity and Compliance release a statement in support of equal pay, and creates policies and procedures to document, reduce, and then eliminate inequitable pay gaps due to race or gender on campus.
3. We demand that the PSU Administration stop threatening student activists.
Students do not lose their rights to free speech when they enroll in college. The right to join with fellow Portlanders in protest or peaceful assembly is critical to a functioning democracy and is at the core of the First Amendment. PSU does not have the right to threaten student activists and must stop these threats immediately.
Join us in our fight for a living wage at Poverty State University!