University of Mississippi Living Wage Petition
Chancellor Glenn Boyce and Provost Noel Wilkins
A full-time job should keep you out of poverty--not in it. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the salary for a "modest yet adequate standard of living" for a single-parent household in Lafayette County is $54,127, or $26 an hour. However, hundreds of full-time employees and graduate workers at the University of Mississippi earn less than an adequate standard of living pay. Not only do many UM workers earn a poverty salary that none can afford to live well on, but the University of Mississippi provides seldom and scant raises. As a result, employees with decades of service make effectively less than when they started as the cost of living in the Oxford area has skyrocketed over the last decade.
Let the University of Mississippi know that you support a living wage for campus workers by signing this petition.
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Chancellor Glenn Boyce and Provost Noel Wilkins
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[Your Name]
United Campus Workers of Mississippi (UCWMS) is committed to ensuring dignity, fairness, and equity for all who work for the University System of Mississippi. We demand that the University of Mississippi commit to the following:
1. Raise the minimum pay for all full-time employees to $26 an hour or $54,000 annual salary.
2. Provide standardized, annual stipends for grad students of at least $35,000 after fees
3. Guarantee an annual inflation increase of 3%.