rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/cos-stipend-petition-delivery?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-cos-stipend-petition-delivery' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> United Campus Workers Georgia https://actionnetwork.org/groups/cwa-local-3265 https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Join Georgia Tech College of Sciences (CoS) graduate students on May 1st, International Workers Day, as we deliver our CoS Grad Workers Need Sustainable Pay Petition to Dean Susan Lozier demanding our 6% COLAs reinstated immediately, and a seat at the table for future decisions that impact our livelihood. This is not about a "bonus." It is about being able to afford to live amid rising costs. It is about the accessibility of our program to those without excessive savings or who have extra expenses like child or medical care. It is about our administration not just offering platitudes but giving us a real seat at the table. We will meet at the Rosa Parks Statue in Harrison Square at 1 PM and walk together to Susan Lozier's Office in Tech Tower. We need to send Dean Lozier a strong message with our numbers: Graduate Workers are essential to Georgia Tech and will fight for what they're worth. To all GT students, faculty, staff, and other community members, please join us in our fight for a living wage by signing the petition and coming to the rally. After the petition delivery, please join us at 2:30 pm for an afterparty at Rocky Mountain Pizza (1005 Hemphill Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30318). Food and (non-alchoholic) drinks will be provided! A little history on International Workers Day and its connection to our fight. On May 1st, 1886, 350,000 workers across the US rallied together in a general strike demanding an eight hour work day with no pay cuts. Met with police brutality, newspaper incitement to hysteria, and a unified business class, workers across industries rallied together for a shared vision of dignity at work. Some of these workers won the demand in the subsequent months, but it took 50+ years of continued pressure and incremental wins for the 8-hour workday to be encoded in federal law for through the Fair Labor Standards Act and even longer for it to be recognized as a more standardized business practice. As workers who benefit from the struggles of our predecessors, we recognize that substantial improvement in our working conditions requires unified action and we are proud to continue that tradition this May 1st, 2026. We will leave you with a quote to commemorate this day: "The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life." -Martin Luther King Jr. https://actionnetwork.org/events/cos-stipend-petition-delivery