“While Bowdoin enjoys national recognition as a top liberal arts college, the workers who sustain its day-to-day operations struggle to make their voices heard,” an anonymous library employee wrote in the Winter 2024 issue of The Bowdoin Orient Magazine.
Bowdoin workers are grappling with long-standing economic challenges in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with widespread complaints that the College is not doing enough to pay people fairly or address the rising cost of living in Brunswick.