Campus Politics Refuse to Forget! Oberlin Students Must Remain Vigilant on Labor The Oberlin administration, in fact, has little moral regard for its actions. By all indications, the blatant union busting which has taken place has been done so blatantly precisely because the school expects there to be little memory of it.
Campus Politics “Union Busting is Disgusting”: 850 students demonstrate solidarity less than 24 hours after custodial and dining layoffs announced The demonstration made clear that Oberlin’s student community stands opposed to the College’s announcement and in support of UAW.
Campus Politics What is to be done? 1. Be Angry. Stay Angry. 2. Get involved! 3. Demonstrate. 4. Educate. 5. Practice self care.
Campus Politics UAW Strong! Voices from Oberlin’s Rank and File Several workers discuss the trials and hardships they’ll face with the coming layoff.
Campus Politics Op-ed: Oberlin has a moral obligation to pay its workers a living wage The moral imperative for any employer, within our capitalist society, is to provide its labor force with just compensation for their labor. A sub-living wage, such as the wages that non-union staff make at Oberlin, is a moral wrong.
Campus Politics Cutting More Than Just Costs: Oberlin's assault on UAW is an act of class warfare Despite the fact that administration got us here in the first place, labor pays the price.
Campus Politics Medicare for All: How universal health insurance could solve Oberlin’s woes Change is coming. Both Oberlin and America are in crisis. We must choose whether to build a just and humane future, or allow the brutal logic of the past 50 years continue to guide our decision making, and lead us down the road to ruin.
Campus Politics What is austerity? No matter that it may upend the livelihoods of 108 unionized custodial and dining staff in the process — using subcontracted labor, instead of union labor, is an obvious path to easing the College’s financial burden ... but is it truly so necessary? Is there really no alternative?
Campus Politics An Oberlin We Can’t Believe In How seriously can we, as activists, speak of the “commitment to social justice” of an institution that still sends many graduates to key roles in the financial sector and the soft-power arms of the American empire?
Campus Politics OSCA study stalled indefinitely: alumni survey would produce crucial new data if allowed to proceed “Even though we went through this process,” designing the survey, consulting, redesigning, and coordinating with the Alumni Association and the IRB, “it just seems that ... certain players didn’t want this data to exist.”
Campus Politics Divide and Conquer “One Oberlin” austerity measures conjure “student demands” as weapons against CDS workers
Campus Politics Norman Finkelstein’s “Limits of the Possible” Need Not Be Ours The famed iconoclast defends his icons
