Jennifer Baidon Carrillo, a senior at Occidental College, stepped outside the school’s administration building to explain to a visitor what was behind the echoing racket inside. More than 100 student workers demonstrated inside the building, carrying signs saying “WE are the Union,” “Job security” and “Fair Treatment.”
The spirited action at the end of March followed months of quiet behind-the-scenes union organizing by student workers that included collecting hundreds of their signatures on union cards. Now, after weeks of back and forth talks with the college’s administration, the students are gearing up for a union election scheduled on April 30.
