Sacramento State student assistants and employees celebrate the official vote for the undergraduate student assistants to unionize.
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This story was updated at 1:01 p.m. Friday to include more comments from student workers.
Student assistants and workers in the California State University system announced Friday that they had voted in favor of unionizing.
The students across the 23 campuses voted in favor of organizing one of the largest student worker organizations in the country so they could fight for better pay, working conditions, sick and paid leave, and more work hours.
The students overwhelmingly voted 7,050 to 202 no in favor of joining the CSU Employees Union (CSUEU).
“This is for all of us and for all of our futures,” said Cameron Macedonio, a student assistant at CSU Fullerton. “Student assistants were increasingly fed up with the CSU administration’s treatment of…
