Claremont Undercurrents

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.

Abolition

5C PrisAb’s teach-in covers policing, prison industrial complex

"There's a level of community that [is needed] in order for carceral options to not be the primary response from people when they're facing some sort of inconvenience."

Palestine

October 4, 2023

Palestine 101 Recap: ahead of campaign, SJP starts the year with a history lesson

"In order to understand the Palestinian struggle, you must understand it through a framework...[of] settler colonialism."

Commentary

October 2, 2023

Scholarship as Separation

I didn't read any books in high school. Everything was always incredibly boring and distant...

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.

Labor

August 6, 2023

Pitzer workers fired for taking a discarded couch reinstated after delegations, union advocacy

“This was an old student's couch that we took...we are not criminals,” Vazquez said.

Labor

May 15, 2023

Whittier and ULV workers win raises, pension after month-long strike

Pomona and Pitzer fights set the precedent for the win, organizers said

Labor

Turning point: how Pitzer workers won a second union at the 5Cs

A look back on the win that sparked standard-setting fights at Pomona, Whittier, ULV and beyond

Palestine

April 25, 2023

SJP and Prisab co-host Stop LAPD Spying Coalition talk about LAPD and IDF surveillance

U.S. police and Israeli apartheid surveillance share logics of “othering,” technologies of legitimization, organizers said

Labor

April 20, 2023

Whittier College dining workers go on indefinite strike for higher wages, pension fund

Claremont students have picketed alongside Whittier students and workers from 7 AM to 7 PM on weekdays since March 27.

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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Retail concessions workers strike at Ontario International Airport

5C PrisAb’s teach-in covers policing, prison industrial complex

Palestine 101 Recap: ahead of campaign, SJP starts the year with a history lesson

Scholarship as Separation

Palmdale Amazon drivers extend four month strike to San Bernardino

Pitzer workers fired for taking a discarded couch reinstated after delegations, union advocacy

Whittier and ULV workers win raises, pension after month-long strike

Turning point: how Pitzer workers won a second union at the 5Cs

SJP and Prisab co-host Stop LAPD Spying Coalition talk about LAPD and IDF surveillance

Whittier College dining workers go on indefinite strike for higher wages, pension fund