Campaign: $16.65 COLA for Student Workers

About the petition and campaign:

• An 11% 2-year cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) approximates the equivalent current-day value of the $15 / hr. living wage already passed by the ASOSU Student Fee Committee in 2021 (adjusted from the CPI-W index, Pacific region) for incidental fee-funded student workers.

• Survey statistics from nearly fifty Oregon cities show Corvallis as the most severely rent-burdened city (37.1% of households).

Campaign objectives:

• Secure passage of a $16.65+ COLA for student workers funded by the Corvallis incidental fee, which is allocated by the Associated Students of Oregon State University (ASOSU), the recognized student government.

  • This step alone would benefit over a thousand student workers in fee-funded units, including the Memorial Union, Dixon Rec Center, Performing Arts, Cultural Resource Centers, Community Engagement & Leadership (CEL), student media, the Family Resource Center, SafeRide, and others.

• Support student organizing to win equivalent wage increases in non-fee funded departments, alongside competitive increases seen previously in large non-fee funded departments (e.g., UHDS).