Approximately 30 Aramark workers and 100 students marched from Sellinger Lounge to Aramark’s management office in Hoya Court on Wednesday to deliver two petitions seeking better work and wage conditions...
Aramark workers on campus are engaged in efforts to renegotiate their contract with the company, demanding better work and wage conditions, since their current three-year contract expires in March.
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From online movements combatting microaggressions at universities nationwide to student-led rallies calling for reform at the gates of the White House, the past year has seen prolific Georgetown student...
The Georgetown Solidarity Committee, in coordination with the United Students Against Sweatshops organization, held an event on Wednesday with survivors of the 2013 RanaPlaza factory collapse in Bangladesh,...
Epicurean and Company owner Chang Wook Chon has pledged to uphold the university’s Just Employment Policy but has not agreed to change his business practices in response to a petition delivered by student...
If Washington, D.C. is to be livable for all its residents, we and the District government need to take a stand to support living wages.
The Large Retailer Accountability Act, which passed through the...
Upon returning to Georgetown this August, many students found themselves disappointed with the changes in service offered at O’Donovan Hall. I immediately noticed a change in the variety of food that...
Students discussed Georgetown’s history of on-campus student activism and a 2005 hunger strike that protested worker conditions at the university at an event in Intercultural Center Wednesday night.
The...
Actions speak louder than words, but sometimes inaction speaks even louder.
Last Wednesday, a group of about 20 members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee led protests against adidas, which is...
About 20 members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee protested alleged labor rights abuses by Georgetown licensee Adidas in front of University President John J. DeGioia’s office Wednesday afternoon.
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O'Donovan Hall employees staged a demonstration at 12:35 p.m. today to voice frustration at the slow pace of contract negotiations for their recently formed union.
About 40 workers, accompanied by...
O'Donovan Hall employees staged a demonstration at about 12:35 p.m. Thursday to voice frustration at the slow pace of contract negotiations between the union they formed last year and their employer,...
