Northwestern students press university for better wages, working conditions during summer employment

The university’s conference assistant program employs 20 mostly low-income students of color, the students said. It supports the university’s summertime events, including conferences and high school programs. In exchange for working approximately 20 hours a week, the assistants receive free housing, dining hall access and a stipend of $1,650.

“There are definitely take-aways that have informed how we change our own protocols, when hiring students, sort of the checks and the double checks. … I think that’s fueled an understandable amount of frustration from the students,” Gonzalez told the Tribune., calls on the school to pay conference assistants an hourly wage of $19.

Bruno said she applied for the job in order to seek alternative housing due to domestic violence in her household. She felt that thewas “pretty ambiguous,” leading many of her fellow conference assistants to feel “betrayed and deceived” when the summer began. “Even if we don’t get a call, we’re walking all around campus alone at night and having experienced sexual assault in the past and knowing that I’m not the only who has,” Bruno said. “I find the university forcing us to do these types of shifts and then not even considering it active work to be extremely insensitive.”

I need to try this

Betcha they spend over 50% of their work time on their phone. Fire em!

Love it when the Left eats it's own.

as they are showing a picture with a girl on her phone with the computer screensaver on... 'overworked' 🤣😂

Didn't they know what the pay was & what the job was before they started? Take it as a learning experience & move on.

Welcome to Capitalism kids

They are learning how the real world works they should get their degree and change the world then...

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