Breaking: Mailroom student workers demonstrate on 8th Ave, demanding better working conditions

By Ellianna Cierpiot cierpiot@grinnell.edu On Thursday October 7, at 11:15 a.m, student mailroom workers organizing with the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) delivered a set of demands to mailroom supervisors Kim Hegg and Peyton Ronfeldt. Outside the JRC at 11:15, students associated with UGSDW, mailroom employees and supporters gathered with signs. Kim Hegg and Payton Ronfeldt have allegedly misgendered transgender workers in the mailroom and called employees by the wrong name, including in official scheduling documents. Other students […]