Georgetown University students on a hunger strike to win living wages for campus janitors are determined to win. They have the support of the AFL-CIO's Metro Washington Council and religious leaders in the Washington, D.C. area. Rachel Murray explains why 28 students are on the hunger strike as part of a three year campaign to win living wages for janitors at Georgetown:

[Rachel Murrray 1]: "Since the administration wasn't addressing the urgency of workers who are living in poverty, then maybe they would address the urgency of students starving themselves and not being able to go to class."

Murray says this is part of a national effort involving a hundred campuses organized in part by United Students Against Sweatshops.

[Murray 2]: "We really want to see support and put pressure on the university to actually do something because it's important that something happen now for the lives of these workers. We want the university to adopt a living wage policy that's gonna adequately meet what the workers need."

The students say janitors at Georgetown are being paid as little as $8.50 an hour. They want to see the wage go to at least $14.93 an hour. They say the current wages being paid the janitors just aren't enough to survive in Washington, D.C.