Students, CDS Workers Protest Bon Appétit
Melissa Harris, News editor
May 5, 2017
Filed under Campus News, NEWS, Recent Stories
Dining halls across campus were unusually empty Monday as hundreds boycotted Bon Appétit Management Company to stand in solidarity with Campus Dining Services staff. The protest, initiated by the Student Labor Action Coalition, aimed to push the College to separate from Bon Appétit and switch to a s...
Bon Voyage, Bon Appétit
Editorial Board
May 5, 2017
Filed under Editorials, OPINIONS
Chronic understaffing, overworked staff members, disgruntled employees and complaints about mismanagement. These are some of the issues that Campus Dining Service workers decried more than two years ago, as covered in the Review at the time (“CDS Workers: We’re Overworked, Disrespected,” The...
SLAC Calls for Worker Self-Management in Dining Services
Jeeva Muhil, Eliza Guinn, Michael Kennedy, Student Labor Action Coalition
May 5, 2017
Filed under Letters to the Editors, OPINIONS
To the Editors: Broader Context: Since May Day is a national day of action for labor rights in the U.S., members of the Student Labor Action Coalition and other interested students chose May 1 to make a stand for workers’ rights on campus. We wanted to both make a statement on campus while also rec...
Domesticated Animals Deserve Compassion
William Cramer, Contributing Writer
September 30, 2016
Filed under Commentary, OPINIONS, Recent Stories
Editor’s note: This op-ed contains description of animal torture and slaughter. Bon Appétit, the company in charge of Oberlin’s Campus Dining Services, ceased buying pork raised in gestation crates in early 2016, according to their website. Gestation crates are used in many factory farms to conf...
CDS Implements Minor Changes after Media Frenzy
Harrison Wollman, Staff Writer
February 12, 2016
Filed under Campus News, NEWS
Little has changed for Campus Dining Services in the three months since representatives met with students from the South Asian, Vietnamese and Chinese student associations — except for the media attention, of course. Despite the national spotlight placed on Oberlin College, CDS and the student associations,...
CDS Workers: We’re Overworked, Disrespected
Oliver Bok, News editor
October 2, 2015
Filed under Campus News, Community News, NEWS, Recent Stories
The Lord-Saunders Dining Hall did not open for dinner on Sunday night, and some stations in Stevenson Dining Hall went unfilled. While the closures may have been nothing more than a minor inconvenience for students, they point to larger problems: severe understaffing in Campus Dining Services and...
Temporary CDS Workers to Receive Free Meals
Oliver Bok, Staff Writer
December 12, 2014
Filed under Campus News, Community News, NEWS
Campus Dining Services has decided to allow temporary workers to eat a meal following their shifts after a petition by the Student Labor Action Coalition asking CDS to change its staff meal policy garnered over 1000 signatures. “I need this week to communicate to the managers that work ...