Pomona College may drop Starbucks as a provider for Cafe 47 following a Feb. 25 meeting between members of Associated Students of Pomona College’s (ASPC) Food Committee and Assistant Vice President of Facilities & Campus Services Bob Robinson, according to multiple sources.
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OPINION: Pomona’s Café 47 is Ready to Brew Something Better than Starbucks & Nestlé
“Since January of 2025, union baristas have filed more than 125 unfair labor practice charges, documenting retaliatory firings, bad-faith bargaining, and a pattern of intimidation,” wrote Lina McRoberts PO ‘27 on behalf of the Claremont Student Worker Alliance. “We refuse to subsidize a corporation built on union suppression, retaliatory discipline and a transnational labor regime that exploits workers from Buffalo to Chiapas to Yunnan… Until Pomona turns its course, we are calling on students to withhold purchases from Café 47 and redirect patronage elsewhere.”
Students protest Starbucks at Pomona’s Café 47, business slows
On Thursday, Oct. 16, several Claremont and national labor organizing groups held a teach-in at the Motley Coffeehouse in response to Pomona College’s Café 47 switching their supplier from Peet’s Coffee to Starbucks Coffee.
The teach-in, titled “Why Starbucks?”promoted a petition to remove the corporation from Claremont campuses alongside nationwide anti-Starbucks movements, and encouraged the boycott of Café 47 and other Starbucks-supplied establishments across the 7Cs.
Navigating between policy and community within ASPC’s first-year elections
This week, TSL sits down with Pomona College’s recently elected freshmen members of ASPC: First-Year President Manar Hadi PO ’29 and South Campus Representative Soren Murphy-Pearson PO ’29. Hadi and Murphy-Pearson discuss their campaign goals, leadership styles and their experiences so far on campus.
Moments to Savor: Sweet, caffeinated relief after a lost ID
Emily Kim’s PO ’25 favorite coffee drink unexpectedly took on new meaning after a silly lost ID fiasco.
Hundreds rally on Labor Day calling for raises for Pomona dining workers
Despite 103-degree weather this Labor Day afternoon, hundreds of Claremont Colleges students, Pomona College dining hall workers and local labor organizers showed up to a rally outside Frary Dining Hall in support of raising wages for Pomona kitchen staff.
Cross-campus dining restrictions to continue as students question reasoning
5C students react to not being able to eat at dining halls other than that of their home campus due to Covid regulations.