UIUC United Students For Labor Rights

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Happy May Day to all! (Some cool posters of Somali, Iranian and Palestinian May Day posters found on twitter.)

As we get closer to May Day, we wanted to recognize previous United Students Against Sweatshop members or affiliated folks in the community who helped build the foundation of United Students for Labor Rights!

Check out Efadul Huq!

Since participating in USAS campaign locally at Champaign-Urbana, Efadul continued maintaining his relationship with the Bangladeshi trade union movement. Particularly, he has worked to build solidarity between Bangladesh Garments Workers Trade Union (in North Dhaka) and Graduate Employees Organization (our graduate workers union at UIUC). In his academic role, he is currently pursuing a PhD in regional planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on the livelihood and shelter practices of urban and peri-urban wetland dwellers in Dhaka (Bangladesh), and investigates how their entanglements with wetland ecologies form resilient, though invisible, infrastructure for cities facing impacts of climate change.

United Students for Labor Rights is thankful for Efadul's labor and organizing in Urbana-Champaign! As students we are inspired by his continuous efforts as an activist. Thank you Efadul Huq for everything you do!

As we get closer to May Day, we wanted to recognize previous United Students Against Sweatshop members who helped build the foundation of United Students for Labor Rights!

Check out Rigoberto Campos!

Rigoberto Campos, born and raised on the southeast side of Chicago, once was a student and former member of USAS until 2015. He comes from immigrant parents straight out of Michoacán, Mexico. He comes from proud family background and history of blue collar workers that inspired much of the person he is today. He studied political science and history with a minor in Latina/o studies. Since he graduated, his efforts have been dedicated to advocating and organizing around healthcare, labor and immigrant rights and in supporting grassroots campaigns that fight on behalf of working people. He is currently a union organizer with Workers United in the city of Chicago, organizing workers in industries across the Midwest.

United Students for Labor Rights is thankful for Campos' labor and organizing in Urbana-Champaign! As students we are inspired by his continuous efforts as a union organizer. Thank you Rigoberto!

Come celebrate Mayday and International Workers' Day at the Art with a FREE SCREENING in honor of workers everywhere!

***Due to schedule changes, we will be showing Ken Loach's powerful dramatization of the Justice for Janitors movement, Bread and Roses***

We will still be conducting a post-screening panel discussion with local labor activists.

Meet Our Panel:

Andrea Herrera -- Andrea received her BS in Integrative Biology and Latinx Studies from UIUC, and an MA in Latin American and Latino Studies from UIC. Currently, she is staff for GEO Local 6300.

Tariq Khan -- Tariq is a PhD candidate in History at UIUC, serves on the Solidarity Committee of the Graduate Employees Organization, and organizes with Black Rose/Rosa Negra.

Nick Goodell -- Nick is a recent graduate of the U of I, where he studied History and Philosophy. He co-hosted a podcast on Labor and Leftist history, the People's History Hour, on WRFU 104.5 for two years, and has an intensive interest in labor studies.