Archived News
Grinnell College Student Workers Strike for Campus-Wide Contract as College Circulates False Claims about Legality
Student Workers begin strike amid threats, intimidation from Grinnell College
Worker Power, Edition 11
The Case for a Strike Date
Worker Power, Edition #10
Worker Power, Edition #9
Worker Power, Edition #8
Worker Power, Edition #7
Worker Power, Edition #6
UGSDW Opening Statement
Worker Power, Edition #5
Worker Power, Edition #4
Worker Power, Edition #3
Worker Power, Edition #2
Worker Power, Edition #1
College Voluntarily Recognizes CAs as a part of UGSDW
STATEMENT: Protect Abortion Rights for All: Fight Supreme Court’s Attack on Reproductive Health
UGSDW wins Historic Union Election
STATEMENT: Iowa’s Anti-Trans Law Must Go!
One Big Union: Grinnell College Student Workers File for Campus-Wide Union; College Agrees to Respect Election Results
Grinnell College Illegally Threatens UGSDW
At General Meeting, UGSDW Announces Campaign for $15 an Hour, Students Share Experiences with Understaffing
Mailroom Workers’ Fight for Demands Continues with Poster Action
Mailroom Workers Demand End to Toxic Work Environment
UGSDW Approves New Dining Contract
Solidarity with K-SWOC
UGSDW Considers Multi-Union Affiliation
Update on Mailroom Safety Campaign
Mailroom Workers Organize
2020 End of Year Update
Statement on College Loan Announcement
Haverford Solidarity Statement
Dining Unit Members Reject College’s Final Offer
Letter to President Anne Harris
Black Lives Matter
Work Study Transparency Petition Delivered!
Petition for Work Study Transparency
COVID-19 Open Letter to President Kington
COVID-19 Updates (March 31st, 2020)
Our Next Steps in the Time of COVID-19
Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and the Unist’ot’en house group
A New Beginning in Our Fight
UGSDW Members Elect 2020 Executive Board
Trustees: No Decision on Expansion in 2019; Student Workers Rally Against Delays
Trustees Delay on Expansion Again; UGSDW Announces Next Phase of Organizing.
First Year Student: Why I am Fighting for Union Expansion
Statement on Board of Trustees Delay of Vote on Partial Expansion
Alumni: It is Time for Trustees to Accept Selective Expansion
Student Dining Workers Ratify New Contract with Grinnell College for Academic Year 2019-2020
Moving Backward: Statement on May 7 Student Campus Memo
Members Elect Fall 2019 Executive Board
Statement on Feb. 21 Special Campus Memo
Our Letter to the Board of Trustees
Trustees Walk Out as UGSDW Asks for Dialogue
UGSDW Unearths Evidence of Racial Discrimination at the Spencer Grill
UGSDW’s New Year Resolution
Grinnell College Sent Backpedaling After Successful Student Demonstration
UGSDW Withdraws Petition, Seeks to Preserve Rights of Student Workers; Grinnell Opposes
Grinnell College, Running Scared… to Trump
Grinnell College Deals Fatal Blow to Civil Discourse… Again.
Grinnell College Threatens Union Members in Latest Blow to Civil Discourse
Student Workers: We’re Stickin’ with the Union
A Case for UGSDW for All
Statement on Nov. 19 Special Campus Memo
Statement on Nov. 12 Special Campus Memo
Student Workers Prevail as NLRB Directs Union Election
UGSDW Files for Election, Paving the Way for Campus-wide Union
Wage Increase for Dining Services in Academic Year 2018-2019
End-of-Year Financial Report
UGSDW Wins Reinstatement for Student Employees
A Response to President Kington
Grinnell’s Anti-worker Agenda
The Most Unionized Campus in America
Student Dining Workers Ratify New Contract with Grinnell College
Members Reject Grinnell’s Final Offer — Again
Statement on the Closing of Bob’s Underground Cafe and Lyle’s Pub
End-of-Year Financial Report
Members Unanimously Reject College Proposal
Grinnell’s Final Offer
May Day Barbecue
2017–2018 Officer Elections
Equal Wage Protest a Success!
Equal Wage Protest
Grinnell, Stop Cheating Your Workers
UGSDW Endorses Summer White for SGA President
Experience Pay Bonuses
UGSDW Begins Unionization of the Spencer Grill
First Contract Ratified!