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Labor

March 30, 2024

Student workers at Coop and Cafe 47 announce new union, demanding voluntary recognition from administration

120+ students and dining hall workers attend rally in solidarity with student workers filing to unionize with UNITE HERE! Local 11

Labor

March 23, 2024

American Labor Union founder Chris Smalls and Claremont organizers speak at ‘Americonned’ screening and panel

“I've never been fired from my job ever in my life until Amazon. And I was a great employee. So for them to fire me, because I spoke up one time, five years, I gave blood, sweat, and tears I gave you [sic]. And that woke me up,” Smalls told the audience.

Labor

February 27, 2024

120+ students rally and delegate to Harvey Mudd College administration to #dropstarbucks

“When HMC uses Starbucks as a supplier, our university is materially and symbolically supporting a corporation that violates workers rights.”

Labor

February 25, 2024

#dropstarbucks: CSWA launches new campaign at teach-in

Student organizers called out Starbucks’ history of child labor, suppression of Palestinian speech and union-busting.

Labor

February 16, 2024

“We’re powerful when we’re together”: IE Amazon workers host structured organizing training on campus

The training pushed for organizing by building intentional majorities instead of numerically large but short-lived movements.

Labor

December 3, 2023

First Pitzer union contract wins $25 base rate, matching Pomona

The contract increased hourly pay by as much as $7.50 and also included increased insurance benefits.

Labor

November 19, 2023

Students fundraise for Palmdale Amazon delivery drivers on strike

Amazon terminated its contract for 84 delivery drivers after they unionized in June. They’ve been picketing at warehouses around the country since.

Labor

October 23, 2023

Amazon 101 recap: CSWA boosts warehouse organizing with a history lesson

Two UCR professors, one a WWRC board member, discussed the history of labor and environmental justice organizing around Inland Empire Amazon warehouses at a CSWA event.

Labor

October 6, 2023

Retail concessions workers strike at Ontario International Airport

Three years after their contract expired, workers asked for a living wage of $21 per hour, rising to $25 by 2025. Hudson counter-offered $21 by 2027.

Labor

September 25, 2023

Palmdale Amazon drivers extend four month strike to San Bernardino

After their contract was terminated by Amazon, workers seeking safer working conditions are on an Unfair Labor Practice strike around the country.

Undercurrents reports on labor, Palestine liberation, prison abolition and other community organizing at and around the Claremont Colleges.

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Issue 1 / Spring 2023

Setting the Standard

How Pomona workers won a historic $25 minimum wage; a new union in Claremont; Tony Hoang on organizing

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