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Haan Jun Lee/The Hoya | Georgetown Students Against Starbucks (GSAS) hosted union workers at a Feb. 22 panel followed by a rally in Red Square to call on Georgetown University to end its contract with Aramark, the university’s primary food service provider which has a license agreement with Starbucks, which has received nationwide criticism for union busting.

Georgetown Students Against Starbucks Hosts Union Workers, Holds Rally to Remove Starbucks from Campus

By Caroline Rareshide, Managing Editor February 23, 2024

Georgetown Students Against Starbucks (GSAS) hosted union workers at a Feb. 22 panel followed by a rally in Red Square to call on Georgetown University to end its contract with Aramark, the university’s...

Georgetown Coalition for Workers’ Rights Raises Concerns

Georgetown Coalition for Workers’ Rights Raises Concerns

By Ranee Brady March 26, 2023

Georgetown staff members discussed on March 1 upcoming contract negotiations and changes to working conditions since the COVID-19 pandemic at a Georgetown Coalition for Workers’ Rights (GCWR) panel...

VIEWPOINT: Protect Workers, Sever Ties with Aramark

VIEWPOINT: Protect Workers, Sever Ties with Aramark

Aramark, the food service and facilities provider contracted by Georgetown University, is guilty of sustaining unpaid prison labor, substandard working conditions and hazardous food quality. Aramark supplies...

Workers Raise Concerns at GU Coalition for Workers Solidarity Events

By Aiden Ehrenreich October 28, 2022

The Georgetown University Coalition for Workers’ Rights organized two events with facilities workers and dining hall workers to create a space for students and workers to openly discuss workers’ concerns...

Law Professor Testifies Before Congress on Labor Organizing, Union Rights

Law Professor Testifies Before Congress on Labor Organizing, Union Rights

By Emily Han September 29, 2022

Visiting Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) professor Mark Gaston Pearce testified before Congress regarding a pro-workers’ and union rights bill. Pearce, the former chairman of the National...

VIEWPOINT: Prioritize Workers’ Rights at Georgetown

VIEWPOINT: Prioritize Workers’ Rights at Georgetown

By Rowlie Flores, Leo Rassieur, William Leonard, and Deborah Wey March 18, 2021

Georgetown University’s dining and administrative workers are the backbone of this university, and many have dedicated years of their lives in service to the Georgetown community.  Throughout...

EDITORIAL: Equalize GU Parental Leave

By Editorial Board November 9, 2018

Academic hierarchy should not determine faculty members’ ability to raise their children. After years of dismissing the concerns of its employees, Georgetown University must take action now to strengthen...

GAGE Georgetown Association of Graduate Employees has set Nov. 5 as the date for its upcoming election, where graduate students will vote whether or not to allow it to engage in collective bargaining on the students behalf.

Graduate Students to Vote on Unionization

By Katrina Schmidt October 26, 2018

Georgetown University’s nearly 1,100 graduate student assistants are set to vote on whether or not to unionize, after a two-yearlong effort by the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees for university...

EDITORIAL: Protect Workers From Exploitation

By Editorial Board September 28, 2018

For the last decade, workers at Epicurean and Company have been pleading for help against an employer seemingly uninterested in treating them fairly. Georgetown University is long past due to take up the...

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UNITE HERE Local 23, the Aramark workers union, and two former Aramark employees of Bulldog Tavern filed a suit against Epicurean and Co. alleging workers rights violations in the contract transition from Aramark to Epicurean and Co.

Former Bulldog Tavern Employees File Suit Against Epicurean

By Katrina Schmidt September 21, 2018

UNITE HERE Local 23, the labor union representing Aramark employees, along with two former Aramark employees of Bulldog Tavern filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 against Epicurean and Company for alleged workers’...

VIEWPOINT: Cut the Bull at the Tavern

By Gabriel Berger and Jessica Richards September 19, 2018

Over the summer, while some of us took classes, worked jobs and internships, or relaxed at home, many people who work at Georgetown University wondered whether they would have a job to return to in the...

Concerns Continue Over Migrant Worker Conditions on Georgetowns Qatar Campus

Concerns Continue Over Migrant Worker Conditions on Georgetown’s Qatar Campus

By Cosima Schelfhout April 25, 2018

“What we’ve seen at Georgetown-Qatar is the norm erosion of our ethical standards.” So wrote Ian Almond — a world literature professor at Georgetown University’s campus in Doha, Qatar, who...

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