United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) Local 619
Community Service & Volunteering
USAS Local 619 at the University of California, San Diego is dedicated to building union power and promoting worker’s rights by waging local and international labor campaigns on our campus. Other struggles we are committed to include: immigrant rights, undoing institutionalized racism, increasing diversity in higher education, lower tuition, combating other forms of oppression in the labor market, changing people’s consumption practices to promote social justice and lobbying in support of working-class issues. In order to maximize our impact in building union and student power on campus, USAS at the University of California, San Diego is a non-partisan, inclusive, “big-tent” organization. In building union power and acting in solidarity with workers, USAS at the University of California, San Diego works in conjunction with elected leaders of labor organizations.