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The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern


Northwestern’s Sodexo and Aramark employees march in April to present a petition asking the companies to help with the transition to Compass Group North America. A petition calling for Compass Group to improve treatment of service workers has received over 2,000 signatures since it was posted at the end of January.

Students demand action against unfair treatment of service workers

February 5, 2019

Students are calling on Northwestern to treat its service workers better, saying the University’s new food service provider, Compass Group North America, has inflicted “emotional distress, financial...

Sargent dining hall. Dining halls this fall stopped offering peanuts and tree nuts to accommodate students with allergies.

Compass goes nut-free in effort to accommodate students with allergies

October 3, 2018

Northwestern dining halls have become nut-free this fall to accommodate students with peanut or tree nut allergies. The policy follows the University’s decision last year to switch food service providers...

Students eat at a Foster-Walker Complex dining hall. Chartwells Higher Education, which will replace some dining operations in the fall, said it will not participate in the federal E-Verify program.

New food service provider says it won’t use federal E-Verify program

May 24, 2018

A subsidiary of Compass Group North America said it will not participate in the E-Verify program when it takes over Northwestern food service operations in the fall. Michael Bennett, a district manager...

Northwestern’s Sodexo and Aramark employees march in April to present a petition asking the companies to help with the transition to Compass Group North America. A petition calling for Compass Group to improve treatment of service workers has received over 2,000 signatures since it was posted at the end of January.

Compass, service workers’ union reach agreement on dining transition

May 9, 2018

Northwestern’s new food provider and the union representing the University’s service workers have reached an agreement ahead of the upcoming dining transition, dispelling some uncertainty about job...

Students gather before marching to Sodexo administrative offices in solidarity with food service workers at NU in November. Contract negotiations between the workers’ union and Sodexo are still ongoing despite student pressure.

Administrators refuse to comment on student movement for Sodexo workers

January 14, 2016

Administrators declined to comment about the ongoing negotiations between Sodexo and the Northwestern dining hall workers’ union despite a recent student protest. Robert Buzz Doyle, the Sodexo general...

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