Welcome to the website for the Notre Dame Campus Labor Action Project (CLAP). CLAP is a coalition of students, staff, faculty, community members and alumni who are working to hold the University to a higher moral stand and to secure a living wage for Notre Dame staff. Number of Signatures: 611 History In the past several years students got the University to join the Worker Rights Consortium to empower workers to fight sweatshops, to not renew a contract with Taco Bell (in support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers who then won their first pay raise in over 20 years), and got fair trade coffee in the dining halls. Now CLAP is continuing these efforts by asking Notre Dame to join Georgetown and Harvard by implementing a fair living wage. University of Notre Dame Mission Statement In addition, the University seeks to cultivate in its students not only an appreciation for the great achievements of human beings but also a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice and oppression that burden the lives of so many. The aim is to create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice. Pope John Paul II - Laborum Exercens Hence in every case a just wage is the concrete means of verifying the justice of the whole socioeconomic system and, in any case, of checking that it is functioning justly. Just remuneration for the work of an adult who is responsible for a family means remuneration which will suffice for establishing and properly maintaining a family and for providing security for its future. Workers Petition for Fair Wages for Home Football Saturdays 38 out of 41 Huddle food service employees sign a petition asking the University to pay them time-and-a-half wages on home football saturdays. Read the Petition CLAP Letter of Support Explore Our Site and the Issue Sign the Petition View the Petition CLAP Living Wage Report 2007 2006 Worker Stories Meet CLAP CLAP's Goals CLAP Statements CLAP Blog Off-Site Resources Catholic Social Thought on Living Wages Catholic Teachings Reference 1 2 ND Licensing Policy (Code of Conduct - anti-sweatshop) Staff Advisory Council - Setup by the university in 1996 in response to staff being discontent and moving towards unionization. Learn how CLAP can use your money to achieve worker justice News Stories 5-8-2007 Workers want more pay for football Saturdays: Petition delivered to administrators listing demands 5-2-2007 Suspected Protest Prompts Action - The Observer 2-6-2007. CLAP Clarifies Its Position - The Observer 5-3-2006. Jenkins responds, leaves CLAP unsatisfied - The Observer 5-2-2006. Groups wage campus labor debates - CLAP members will try to conduct sit-in - The Observer 5-1-2006. Groups wage campus labor debates - Campus rally part of May Day event - The Observer 4-28-2006. Agree to CLAP - The Observer 4-28-2006. Worker conditions need greater attention - Staff Editorial - The Observer 4-27-2006. Campus Workers Enter Wage Discussion - The Observer 4-20-2006. Notre Dame statement on the “living wage” -- University Statement -- It's funny how they put Living Wage in quotes. 4-20-2006. Wage Issue: Affleck-Graves backs existing policies - The Observer 4-24-2006. CLAP, University face wage issue 4-17-2004. Students plan public forum on living wage at Notre Dame - Chicago Tribune/AP 4-17-2006. Students Demanding Better Pay For Notre Dame Employees WSBT 22 WNDU 16 4-16-2006. Student activists pursue wage issue - South Bend Tribune 3-31-2006. Wages Are a Responsibility - The Observer 3-31-2006. Unite for Higher Wages - The Observer 3-29-2006. CLAP anticipates response to report - The Observer 3-09-2006. CLAP Presents Wage Report to Administrators The Observer (front page) 3-06-2006. Living Wage is an Issue of Catholic Character South Bend Tribune 2-28-2006. Living Wage a Necessity The Observer 2-28-2006. Wages Shouldn't Be Based on the Market The Observer 2-28-2006. Chance to Set an Example The Observer 2-22-2006. Social Justice and the Living Wage The Observer 2-20-2006. Living Justice The Observer 2-16-2006. Leaders push wage campaign The Observer reporting on Student Senate giving unanimous support for two CLAP proposals. 11-09-2005. Law creates a new ND retirement option The Observer 10-13-2005. Group Works for Fair Pay The Observer 09-30-2005. ND's Jenkins challenged: Group demands living wages for campus workers South Bend Tribune 09-28-2005. Notre Dame's Labor Question The Observer 08-26-2004. ND cancels contract with Taco Bell The Observer 02-05-2001. Conference Addresses Living Wage Issue The Observer Contact Us CLAP Phone: 574-210-7020 Aaron (Alumni Support Committee and Website) This site runs on open source software. If you want a copy of it, ask.