Low wages force worker-parents to choose between working for and raising family
In the aftermath of the recent school shooting, I have heard numerous Princeton students say that the solution to school violence is to have parents that are in touch with their children. Many of the same students who think parents must assume a greater role in their childrens' lives are against the worker's rights campaign on campus. I believe that simultaneously holding these two views is hypocritical.
The workers here are paid as low as $7.25 an hour with no benefits. As a result, most workers have two to three jobs to make ends meet. The workers here are also mothers and fathers, many with teenage children. The low wages Princeton University pays forces these parents to choose between providing for their family and raising their family.
Throughout the Woodrow Wilson building today, professors lectured on how to solve school violence. Inevitably, they spoke to the need for parents to spend more time with their children. Yet, while the Princeton faculty professes the value of parental responsibility in theory, the Princeton administration rejects the most basic rights of parents in practice. After all, in paying Princeton workers a wage below the cost of living, the school perpetuates the very institutional structures that make it impossible for parents to see their children. Seth Green '01
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