Apr 24, 2008 6:28 PM
Members of UNITE HERE were in Ireland in April protesting giant food services company Aramark’s shabby treatment of workers in New York, where Aramark workers have been striking Bank of New York-Mellon headquarters for more than a month, pounding a drum within easy earshot of UFT headquarters.
The workers protested outside the Dublin offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which is a U.S. customer of Aramark and whose subsidiary Campbell Catering employs some 4,000 staff in Ireland.
Similar actions were held in Britain and Belgium.
“There are Aramark employees at the PricewaterhouseCoopers headquarters in New York earning less than $400 a week, and the majority cannot afford access to the Aramark health insurance scheme,” said James Grogan of UNITE HERE.
Aramark made $12.4 billion in sales revenue in 2007. Its CEO, Joe Neubauer, saw his company stock holdings jump to almost $1 billion in 2006.
Strikers addressed the UFT Delegate Assembly in February.
The Irish Times, April 8