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Since October, the Georgetown Coalition for Workers’ Rights has pushed for an active presence after struggling with the loss of pre-pandemic momentum.

Many long-time facilities workers consider the last year one of the worst for labor relations in recent memory.

Georgetown announces partnership with ENGIE to meet sustainability goals April 29, 2021 Georgetown announced a partnership with ENGIE North America to upgrade the campus’s major utility, distribution, monitoring, and control systems. The partnership aims to help the university lower its energy use intensity by 35 percent and meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2030. The 50-year agreement will go into effect July 1. Energy use intensity, or the energy usage per square foo...

Without staffing, Office of Sustainability faces uncertain future The Office of Sustainability (OoS) is currently functionally on pause. Normally run by two full-time staff and a team of three to five interns, the office has been a pillar of the Georgetown environmental community since it was founded in 2013. The departure and movement of the office’s permanent staff, however, leaves the office waiting for direction. Audrey Stewart, who has led the office as its director since its founding...

Georgetown University staff resist after being asked to take new public health roles or unpaid leave Lauren Lumpkin Staff at Georgetown University are railing against a program that asks them to temporarily take on health-related roles during the pandemic — such as conducting wellness screenings, registering visitors to campus or security — or go on unpaid leave. It comes as the school has designed a spring semester that will include about 200 hybrid courses, increased ...

Staff members claim “Redeploy Georgetown” program forces them to become health screeners against their will  In a letter to administrators published on Jan. 26, Georgetown staff members accused the university of violating its Just Employment Policy by forcing employees to become public health screeners for Spring 2021 and taking away health benefits from those who refused to be repositioned. These employees were selected as part of the university’s Redeploy Georgetown program, which s...