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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


LTE: An Open Letter from 95 Northwestern faculty, staff and grad workers in support of campus food services workers

LTE: An Open Letter from 95 Northwestern faculty, staff and grad workers in support of campus food services workers

March 18, 2025

Dear President Schill, Provost Hagerty, COO Luke Figora, Vice President Susan Davis and members of Northwestern’s central administration: We, the undersigned NU faculty members and educators, stand...

The dining workers plan to continue to strike each day from 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. until UNITE HERE Local 1 negotiates a new contract with Compass Group, including increased wages and pension benefits.

SOLR, Chicago labor leaders join striking dining workers to demand new contract

March 14, 2025

On the fifth day of the Compass Group dining workers’ strike, members of Students Organizing for Labor Rights and the Chicago Federation of Labor assembled at The Arch early Friday afternoon to picket...

One of the union’s primary concerns is to guarantee job security to all the workers at the Kellogg School of Management’s James Allen Center.

Hundreds of NU dining service workers picket for improved contract with Compass Group

November 2, 2024

Hundreds of Northwestern dining and service workers picketed by The Arch on Friday calling for a fair improved contract with the University’s food service provider Compass Group. The previous nearly...

LTE: Students reject Compass mistreatment of Allen Center workers

LTE: Students reject Compass mistreatment of Allen Center workers

October 9, 2024

On Thanksgiving Day, over 100 campus workers will be left stranded as reconstruction of the James Allen Center begins. With limited job security protections, workers at the Allen Center will either be...

There are currently over 100 workers employed at the center who may be displaced when construction begins.

NU dining workers’ union petition for job security for Allen Center employees

October 8, 2024

A petition released by UNITE HERE Local 1, the union representing service workers at Northwestern, gained traction this week in support of employees who will lose their jobs at the Kellogg School of Management’s...

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