Firing of Workers Who Failed to Provide Documents Divides Pomona College.

POMONA College (Claremont, Calif.); EMPLOYMENT of undocumented immigrants; HIGHER education employees' labor unions; LABOR organizing; OXTOBY, David; STUDENT activism

CLAREMONT (Calif.); CALIFORNIA

The article discusses controversy at Pomona College surrounding the firing of seventeen employees due to their inability to provide documentation regarding their United States citizenship. It describes the process used by Pomona president David Oxtoby and the school's trustees in investigating the citizenship status of several employees, highlights protests such as hunger strikes and boycotts by students and faculty, and explores the role of unionization efforts by food-service workers in the investigation.