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Public Flagship University, The University of Maryland’s Public Workers rally with students to Demand Fair Treatment and Equal Rights | Dailycensored.com

Public Flagship University, The University of Maryland’s Public Workers rally with students to Demand Fair Treatment and Equal Rights | Dailycensored.com

Public Flagship University, The University of Maryland’s Public Workers rally with students to Demand Fair Treatment and Equal Rights

In a stunning show of courage, public workers from SB Local #1072 of College Park, Maryland at the University of Maryland rallied on April 13th to demand their rights and express their grievances. Alongside them were university students, aligning their interests in tandem with those of the university public workers. This is an important step in, mobilizing opposition to unfair treatment of public workers at the university, of which Brian Igho wrote at http://dailycensored.com/2011/04/05/plantation-era-material-conditions-for-public-workers-at-the-university-of-maryland/). It also represents an important step in students and staff organizing and mobilizing. They see their interests are one and the same. Both students and workers correctly see solidarity is the only way to advance in the struggle to end inequality, fight for civil rights and defend