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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Students gather before marching to Sodexo administrative offices in solidarity with food service workers at NU. The group presented a petition calling for measures such as better treatment of workers and a guaranteed 40-hour work week as workers begin to renegotiate their contract with Sodexo.

Students deliver petition in support of food workers’ contract negotiations

November 24, 2015

More than 50 students marched to the offices of Sodexo management in Sargent Hall on Monday afternoon to demonstrate solidarity with Northwestern food service workers as they enter contract negotiations...

Tom Breitsprecher, a cook at the Willard Residential College dining hall, and Rafael Marquez, a food service worker in 1835 Hinman dining hall, discuss their personal experiences as campus workers at an event held Tuesday as part of Social Justice Week. At the end of the event, a petition supporting campus workers was announced.

Northwestern employees, students discuss workers’ rights as part of Social Justice Week

May 14, 2014

Northwestern workers and students spoke Tuesday night about the increasingly corporate culture of universities like NU and announced a petition supporting the rights of campus workers. The talk,...

Sodexo employee Rafael Marquez addresses activists at The Arch during a rally supporting him on April 21. Marquez subsequently retained his job with Sodexo.

Sodexo worker given final written warning following temporary suspension

April 30, 2014

A Sodexo employee who was put on temporary suspension last week returned to work Tuesday after he said he received a final written warning stating that similar behavior in the future would result in “further...

Students organized a protest outside the Sodexo offices Monday afternoon. The protest was organized to show support for Rafael Marquez, a worker who Sodexo put on temporary suspension allegedly because he said he stood up for another worker in a staff meeting.

Students organize march to support Sodexo workers

April 21, 2014

Student activists organized a march through campus Monday demanding better treatment of Northwestern workers after Sodexo temporarily suspended a 10-year employee who said he was accused of being “under...

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