What is SOUL?
Students Organizing United with Labor (SOUL) is a student group at the University of Chicago. We are committed to supporting the struggles of working people everywhere as they fight for workers' rights and economic justice. Recognizing that our power as students is on campus, we work to make our university more accountable to its workers, whether they are on campus, making University of Chicago apparel across the world, or anywhere in between.

SOUL is the UChicago chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a national organization of student groups at universities and high schools working to combat abuses of workers' rights. To learn more about USAS, click here.

The USAS Mission
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a grassroots organization that develops youth leadership and runs strategic student-labor solidarity campaigns with the goal of building sustainable power for working people. We define "sweatshop" broadly and consider all struggles against the daily abuses of the global economic system to be a struggle against sweatshops.

We envision a world in which society and human relationships are organized cooperatively, not competitively. We struggle towards a world in which all people live in freedom from oppression, in which people are valued as whole human beings rather than exploited in a quest for productivity and profits.