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UM students stage sit-in at administration building in support of janitors strike

To show support of the University of Miami janitors strike, about 19 students began a sit-in in the administration building about noon today.

Jacob Coker-Dukowitz, a junior at UM, said: 'We are sitting in because the university refuses to honor workers' rights and dignity consistently. This is about President Shalala not respecting that right, and Unicco not respecting that right.''

Coker-Dukowitz said he and the 18 other students plan to engage in sit-in as long as necessary.

I have it on good authority that Associate Dean Donna Coker's son is named Jacob, but I do not know if the Jacob Coker-Dukowitz is one and the same.

I feel like I am having a flashblack.

The local CBS station reports that the service company, UNICCO Service Co.

has publicly refused to allow the janitors to choose a card-check election; instead they have embarked on anti-union campaign to intimidate workers from organizing with Local 11 and insisted that the janitors subject themselves to a NLRB election that could take years.

Don't forget to go to Discourse.net and read Professor Froomkin on Shala and Father Frank.