A victory for the janitors and their student supporters in Miami. The Herald reports that the workers will now be able to vote on whether SEIU, the service workers union, should represent them when they negotiate their contracts. This will presumably lead to an election in favor of union membership, and for low-income workers, union membership leads to a better life.

The student organizers who joined the cause deserve a lot of the credit for putting pressure on the University to do the right thing. Student activists are discovering how much power they have to change the world when they tackle campus policies for workers.