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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.

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

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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