After three years of organizing and a 10 day hunger strike, workers at Georgetown University claimed a living wage victory last week. Jack Mahoney is a member of the Georgetown Living Wage who helped coordinate the campaign. Mahoney says that although they didn't get every single thing they were looking for, it is a victory because campus workers will begin receiving $13 per hour in July of this year and $14 by July 2007. That's up from the current $11.33 per hour.

[Mahoney]: And there's also all sorts of non-monetary benefits like freedom of association guarantees and grievance procedures that are set up formerly now that will be great materially for workers in the future.

More than 20 students took part in the hunger strike that ended when Georgetown President John J. DeGioia announced a new policy that reflected many of the concessions sought by the Coalition.