Service Workers Stand Up to Aramark

This week, workers across the country employed by Aramark who provide food and cleaning services for public and private facilities are educating taxpayers and customers about Aramark’s business practices that not only harm workers (low wages, no benefits) but that shortchange consumers by cutting corners on quality and promising savings the company can’t deliver.

In Philadelphia, for example, where Aramark has its world headquarters, workers, public school parents, clergy and elected officials marched down Market Street Tuesday to present the global facilites giant with an oversized check representing what it should reimburse Philadelphia's school system. Over the past two years of managing the school system's cafeterias, Aramark ran a deficit of nearly $11 million.