"Raise waiges"

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Aw, man... You beat me to it.

Proofreading please.

Damn. Students are pulling out the punches. Look at how long that list is. Damn straight you don't have to raise student fees to pay a living wage

Does that list include UW Medicine? That's a part of the UW and accounts for 4 major hospitals and a medical school.

Does it say "waiges" or is that a mark on the stair? The apparent "i" is a different color than the rest of the letters on the step.

Want to get on that 15ft Scroll. Go to class and get A's. Graduate, then get PAID! Do it the Old Fashioned Way. Earn In. Not just cry about it. The peeps on that list got by on less than these whiners. Minimum wage was less back then.

if they can do it so can you. Stop complaining. EARN IT!!

Cruce is a liar. The sports department has $3m in subsidies. USA Today

The comment from the student in the intensive English program is not related to this discussion. The teachers are definitely making more than $15 an hour (though considerably less than instructors elsewhere at UW, despite the insane amount of money the IEP brings in via international students. But that's an entirely different topic.)

They could do it if they wanted to. The money is there and it doesn't have to come out of student fees. I doubt it has to come at the expense of those earning high salaries working for the university either (if you want talent you do have to pay for it). This isn't some struggling small business we're talking about. I hope my alma mater gets their shit together and does the right thing soon.

Check out the football coach. He makes around $2.5 MILLION a year.

@10
When have they ever?

Didn't Cauce have some huge protests against her when she was chair of American Ethnic Studies back in the 90s? She has a history of antagonistic relations with students.

"...we are going hand-in-hand." What kind of bullshit is that?

UW has a $12 billion annual budget, of which the Seattle campus constitutes the lions share. We are only talking about $11 per hour, and because most students work part time, their UW income is far less than that of a full time minimum wage employee making $22,880 per year, which is starvation wages considering the high cost of living.

I'm sure UW can find some way to cut back, e.g., by paying their boated athletic staff a little less. Chris Peterson gets a corporate CEO multi $million salary for fuck's sake.

i manage (student) personnel paid by student fees. upon creating & eventually hiring 2 new positions this past budget cycle, i was was actively discouraged from budgeting the new positions at $15/hr, despite my operating budget (also paid by student fees) being in complete position to afford this increase, and student fees only increased by $1/quarter between FY14 & FY15. its bullshit, the university can absolutely afford to comply with the city's standards for all its employees, students and otherwise.

employees that make 150k would not suddenly leave a job they liked if it paid 145k. Once you are up above a certain amount, then factors other than pay are more important than 5k of salary.

UW's budget for 2015 is $6.4 BILLION. If all 2,600 student employees worked 20 hours a week for 52 weeks, the cost would be $2.7 million for a $1.00 raise. Raise tuition? Get real? UW students graduate (or drop out) drowning in debt and the answer is Raise Tuition?

@8 The ENTIRE sports department receives subsidies. I bet football is the only profitable team at UW. From the article:

" Florida also cites women's sports funding as a major reason for the nearly $4.4 million in subsidies its athletics program received in 2012, the second consecutive year — and the third time in six years —"

"In addition, roughly 75% of the more than $2.4 million in student athletic fees Florida collects are earmarked for women's sports, McClain said."

Obviously those quotes are about Florida but its the same at most Div I schools. You are lucky to have one or maybe two sports (football and men's BB) that bring in positive cash flows. Title IX requires equal funding/access so less popular sports are subsidized.

This is not an argument against Title IX or sports subsidies. My point is that a winning football coach is extremely valuable. It may look unseemly to see a coach making millions of dollars but when they are bringing in even more millions of dollars, which are spread around to support all student athletes, they are probably worth every penny.

@18, i'm not an expert on the issue but from what i know this is flat out wrong...

"...part of the reason they're having a hard time adjusting to the minimum wage is that student jobs are partially subsidized by the federal work study program, which operates in fixed dollars, not hours."

Work study jobs (part of a students respective financial aid award and thus only eligible to certain qualifying student) are a fraction of the jobs available to students on campus. I can say for sure that the student jobs in my program are not subsidized federally, nor are any of the other student jobs that are offered through my office.