In March 2022, the Wesleyan Union of Student Employees made history by becoming the first undergraduate student union to be voluntarily recognized. This development arose on a changing landscape of labor militancy throughout the US: as the Amazon Labor Union was entering the national landscape, so did students at Iowa’s Grinnell College formalize a union for all student employees. How do the Amherst Labor Alliance, and the organizing traditions preceding it, fit into this picture? Why isn't Amherst unionized? 

Edited by Isabelle Gomez and Karina Maciel '25.