Across the country, students are fighting sweatshops, challenging administrations, and getting inspired to support worker justice. A key way to do this work effectively is through a campus group.

1. Examine curriculum and determine if labor/worker justice issues are taught. If they are not, advocate with appropriate professors to include one or two sessions as part of a related class.
2. Investigate how janitors, cafeteria workers, and building contractors are treated at the school.
3. Connect with the local interfaith committee, and mobilize student participation in delegations, rallies, prayer vigils, and other events.
4. Plan a worker justice service for chapel programs. Good times would be Worker Memorial Day (Apr. 28,) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Thanksgiving, and Labor Day. Consider doing a Labor in the Pulpits-style service.
5. Explore worker justice field placements. Recruit students to do seminary summer and other related internships.
6. Educate students about worker justice issues through community forums, orientation times, round tables, and seminars for seminary summer "grads," labor leaders, and others.
7. Plan field trips for students. Consider having students do house visits with local organizers or advocate to have your group on the agenda of a Central Labor Council meeting.
8. Communicate regularly with the National Interfaith Committee. Share professor and student contacts. Publish related job and internship information. Help improve IWJ web area for seminaries.
9. Publish articles in denominational mailings and appropriate newsletters.
10. Encourage professors, supervised ministry people, campus ministry people, and denominational leaders to focus more on worker justice issues.

If you would like find a student worker justice group near you, please contact Joy Heine, Project Director, Religious Perspectives on Work, Interfaith Worker Justice, 1020 West Bryn Mawr, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60660, or (773) 728-8400 ext. 33.