Meet the Campus Labor Action Project Campus Labor Action Project An effort to build an organization- open and welcoming- of workers, students, faculty, alumni and other allies working with each other around labor justice issues on Notre Dame’s Campus. It will be based on solidarity, ethical principles, and organizing for power to change. Membership is open, not based on status- only the desire to build an authentic Notre Dame Family that treats students, workers, faculty, and alumni as equal members. We call this campus to conscience in recognizing and uplifting the long tradition of the Catholic Church advocating for the rights of workers to livable wages and dignity in the workplace. We call this campus to community to see and treat workers as full members of the Notre Dame Family. We call this campus to action by working with university officials to develop a living wage policy this year for the University of Notre Dame. What we have done Held over 300 meetings with workers, students, faculty, alumni, and allies to build a diverse base of supporters and leaders. April 2005. A Teach-In on living wage campaigns with a speaker from the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. 35 attendees Sept. 29, 2005. An Inaugural Assembly at the heart of campus with over 150 attendees to announce our mission, educate ourselves on Catholic teachings on labor justice, hear stories from campus workers, and hear personal accounts from student and alumni leaders on why they support a living wage on Notre Dame’s Campus. Two allies stood with us September 29th- Kim Bobo the Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice and Stephen Smith, a 2002 Harvard Living Wage Campaign student leader from 1998-2002. Oct. 29-30, 2005. A Training Conference on building student-worker alliances, catholic social teaching, and campus organizing with successful living wage student organizers of the Georgetown Living Wage Coalition. Nov 15, 2005. An Alumni Call-In Day. Over 20 alumni called President Fr. Jenkins to urge him to work with CLAP and implement a living wage. What We Plan To Do Campus Labor Action Project forum with University President Rev. John Jenkins in December- depending on his commitment to the principle of living wage and working with CLAP this year for a living wage policy.