Last year over 60 UC Davis faculty signed a letter in support of the contracted-out foodservice workers efforts and urged the UCD administration to make them union represented university employees.
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Just as these workers continue their fight we to will continue to stand with them. To this end, the Progressive Faculty Group at UC Davis worked with them to produce the report "From the Shadows: How University of California Davis Contracting-Out Fosters Worker Poverty" to highlight the urgency for the UC Davis administration to make these workers full members of the UC Davis community.

Please download the report and join the growing list of faculty, students, elected officials and community members who are standing with the workers.

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Preface

New faculty at the University of California at Davis (UCD) must attend workshops at which administrators suggest how much we would like working at Davis: one of the last small-town universities that values their “close relationships on campus and within the Davis community.” At the workshops faculty were also reminded how all members of the university community endorse the university’s “Principles of Community.” Unfortunately, when we explore the every day experiences and working conditions of the people who are often overlooked as we rush between classes, it is easy to see how the UCD administration is not upholding these principles. UCD contracts out the campus foodservice operations to Sodexho, Inc. These contracted-out workers are struggling to make ends meet on low wages, laboring under hazardous working conditions, and are treated with disrespect by their supervisors and management.

This document highlights the importance of the UCD administration’s need to make contracted-out foodservice workers direct union represented UCD workers. But this is not enough. The UCD administration must ensure that all its workers earn a self-sufficient wage, labor under safe working conditions, and receive respect by all members of the UCD community, in particular the workers’ supervisors and managers. Furthermore, UCD must provide comprehensive health care benefits and pay enough so workers can afford needed medications; UCD must not threaten workers because of inability to read or write English; UCD must discontinue pressuring workers to work unjustifiably long hours and overtime.

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