Author: Wes Haas

In the last week, 53 concerned alumni and 48 Pomona College faculty members have written open letters to President David Oxtoby and the Board of Trustees urging the college to follow through on its promise to refrain from any anti-union campaigning during the period of time before dining hall staff

Relations between student leaders of the 5C outdoors club On The Loose (OTL) and Pomona College administrators have worsened recently due to disputes over student autonomy within the leadership of OTL, a source of tension that has existed since the founding of Pomona’s Outdoor Education Center (OEC) in 2011.  This

According to a Workers for Justice (WFJ) representative, Pomona College and WFJ have agreed to hold a vote for unionization April 30. Before the vote is held, however, both parties will have to agree on the language of the ballot and establish who will be eligible to vote in the

Dining hall workers at University of La Verne voted to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 11, the union of hospitality and food service workers in the greater Los Angeles area, Thursday, March 7. UNITE HERE Local 11 is the same union that Pomona College dining hall workers would join should

The three-year anniversary since Pomona College dining workers went public with their request to the administration for a fair process to unionize was Sunday, March 3. To mark the occasion, Workers for Justice (WFJ) held a rally outside of Frank Dining Hall after Sunday’s brunch that brought together dining hall

“Us geniuses are not happy people. You’re asking happy people if they’re happy with their college,” said MSNBC pundit Lawrence O’Donnell in response to Forbes magazine’s Top 100 colleges list last year, in which Pomona College ranked ninth in large part because it excelled in the area of overall student happiness, a