Worker Stories This campaign started with a conversation- students and workers meeting in the library during the late shift, South Dining hall during lunch, north dining hall dinner, and everywhere in between. We have changed the names to protect people we respect who want to keep their jobs at Notre Dame- but want them to pay and be better. Tony- Lafortune Student Center “Benefits don’t put food on the table. At IUSB a person doing my same job starts off at $12/ hr. Here, we start at barely $9. Benefits are great, but the day to day is hard on such a low wage. At Lafortune, we custodians don’t get eal tickets like Food service workers, plus we have to eat our lunch in our break room, which is really a closet. We have to eat right next to our mop sink, chemicals, and garbage bin in a room with two chairs. It isn’t right. Jonathan Works two jobs for the University – night shift in the library for Building Services 10:30pm – 6:30am and then for Landscaping from 7am – 3pm. Wages: Landscaping starting wage at 8.50 Night shift at library is minimum 9.85 Even with the two jobs life is a real struggle. I’m trying to buy a house. I just didn’t like living in apartments where everything is so noisy and there are so many rules. I just want to live in peace. I’m married with a baby on the way. So I have to work in order to try to make the house payments, which I haven’t been making. I likes the idea of CLAP and the idea of working for better wages, but I haven’t been to meeting because I work 17 hours a day. Betty- North Dining Hall Working in the dining hall isn’t that bad. My managers treat me but it’s difficult to get the kind of hours and the kind of benefits package I really want. Now that I’m on-call and only work 20-32 hours per week, I don’t get paid vacation or any of the other nice benefits that I used to have even though I’ve worked here for many years. I’d really like to be paid for Christmas Day. Not for the extra money or for the paid holiday, but to me that it is just the idea of them paying me for Christmas – it would boost my self-esteem. Anita- South Dining Hall I’ve only worked at South for 3 years. The part that I cant understand is how when we get raises it’s only 3 cents! How does that work! And even then, we hardly ever get raises and when it happens, it barely does anything. It just doesn’t keep with the cost of living and I’m forced to work a second job even though I don’t want to. But it is the only alternative. You got to work more to be able to survive.