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Rutgers Study says N.J. cafeteria workers get low pay, few benefits
New Brunswick, NJ -- Thousands of school food service workers in New Jersey are living at or near poverty and the state's $200 million industry, dominated by Fairfield, NJ - based Pomptonian Food Service, is in need of greater transparency and accountability, according to a new report by the Rutgers University Center for Women and Work/School of Management and Labor Relations and 32BJ SEIU -- the property service workers union.
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National and state coverage of this report at » MSN MoneyCentral, New Jersey Real Time News, New Jersey Newsroom, Courier Post Online, Philadelphia Inquirer
Ramos: Pay cafeteria staff better
By Amy Sara Clark
The Joursey Journal
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
School cafeteria workers looking for better pay and training have a friend in Hoboken Assemblyman Ruben Ramos.
Ramos, who teaches sixth-grade at School 15 in Paterson, was one of 10 state legislators who signed a giant postcard Monday in Trenton in support of better salaries and training for cafeteria workers, especially those working for private contractors.
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Cafeteria workers seek support for a 'living wage'
By Elise Young
The Record
Monday, February 9, 2009
School cafeteria workers, many making less than $10 an hour, asked Governor Corzine today to support higher wages and health care.
"At my school, we switched contractors," said Hazel Wollard, who works at Columbia High School in Maplewood. "I kept my job, but I lost my health-care coverage in the change."
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School Cafeteria Workers Demand Better Working Conditions
Millennium Radio
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
School cafeteria workers and their supporters hand delivered 500 postcards to the office of Governor Jon S. Corzine on Monday in an effort to draw attention to what they say are sub-standard working conditions. Poverty-level wages, no health insurance benefits, no paid sick days, and inadequate training were among their top complaints.
"They don't even have paid sick days. They are inadequately trained. Their wages are inadequate," said Kevin Brown, a representatives of the Service Employees International Union. He said there are 7,000 contracted food service workers in New Jersey's public schools. "It's really a miserable situation."
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Sodexo: Solidarity Across the Atlantic
by Fanny Doumayrou
Daily Edition of l'Humanité
Thursday, January 29, 2009
French unions of the major services' giant supported their fellow American workers who are up against repression against unions
Paris--This afternoon there'll be at least four Americans in the demonstration in Paris, more specifically marching behind the Sodexo banner. The French unions of the multinational - also a French one - that provides food services, facilities' cleaning and various other services (336,000 employees worldwide) took advantage of the demonstration of January 29 to attract attention to the catastrophic situation of the right to unionize [or: union law] in the United States, and to lend their support to the American unions with shops in the company. They are demanding an extension of the ways to set up shop. At the invitation of the CGT, CFDT, CFTC, FO and CGC inter-union organization, a delegation of American union members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and UNITE HERE, two unions that broke off from the AFL-CIO in 2005, at a press conference yesterday, attested to the difficulties Sodexho employees are facing on the other side of the Atlantic.
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American Union Members in Paris for Defense of Their Rights in the U.S.
AFP Économie
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Paris, January 28, 2009 (AFP) - A delegation of some American union members communicated their intention on Wednesday of joining the Paris demonstration on Thursday, and to take action face to face the French company Sodexho to defend union rights in the United States.
"We have asked Sodexho management in the United States to acknowledge the right to unionize in a better way but we've made little headway and we therefore want the French management of the company to be involved in this issue", explained member Autumn Weintraub of the SEIU (two million members).
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New Brunswick, NJ -- Thousands of school food service workers in New Jersey are living at or near poverty and the state's $200 million industry, dominated by Fairfield, NJ - based Pomptonian Food Service, is in need of greater transparency and accountability, according to a new report by the Rutgers University Center for Women and Work/School of Management and Labor Relations and 32BJ SEIU -- the property service workers union.
More »
National and state coverage of this report at » MSN MoneyCentral, New Jersey Real Time News, New Jersey Newsroom, Courier Post Online, Philadelphia Inquirer
Ramos: Pay cafeteria staff better
By Amy Sara Clark
The Joursey Journal
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
School cafeteria workers looking for better pay and training have a friend in Hoboken Assemblyman Ruben Ramos.
Ramos, who teaches sixth-grade at School 15 in Paterson, was one of 10 state legislators who signed a giant postcard Monday in Trenton in support of better salaries and training for cafeteria workers, especially those working for private contractors.
More »
Cafeteria workers seek support for a 'living wage'
By Elise Young
The Record
Monday, February 9, 2009
School cafeteria workers, many making less than $10 an hour, asked Governor Corzine today to support higher wages and health care.
"At my school, we switched contractors," said Hazel Wollard, who works at Columbia High School in Maplewood. "I kept my job, but I lost my health-care coverage in the change."
More »
School Cafeteria Workers Demand Better Working Conditions
Millennium Radio
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
School cafeteria workers and their supporters hand delivered 500 postcards to the office of Governor Jon S. Corzine on Monday in an effort to draw attention to what they say are sub-standard working conditions. Poverty-level wages, no health insurance benefits, no paid sick days, and inadequate training were among their top complaints.
"They don't even have paid sick days. They are inadequately trained. Their wages are inadequate," said Kevin Brown, a representatives of the Service Employees International Union. He said there are 7,000 contracted food service workers in New Jersey's public schools. "It's really a miserable situation."
More »
Sodexo: Solidarity Across the Atlantic
by Fanny Doumayrou
Daily Edition of l'Humanité
Thursday, January 29, 2009
French unions of the major services' giant supported their fellow American workers who are up against repression against unions
Paris--This afternoon there'll be at least four Americans in the demonstration in Paris, more specifically marching behind the Sodexo banner. The French unions of the multinational - also a French one - that provides food services, facilities' cleaning and various other services (336,000 employees worldwide) took advantage of the demonstration of January 29 to attract attention to the catastrophic situation of the right to unionize [or: union law] in the United States, and to lend their support to the American unions with shops in the company. They are demanding an extension of the ways to set up shop. At the invitation of the CGT, CFDT, CFTC, FO and CGC inter-union organization, a delegation of American union members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and UNITE HERE, two unions that broke off from the AFL-CIO in 2005, at a press conference yesterday, attested to the difficulties Sodexho employees are facing on the other side of the Atlantic.
More »
American Union Members in Paris for Defense of Their Rights in the U.S.
AFP Économie
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Paris, January 28, 2009 (AFP) - A delegation of some American union members communicated their intention on Wednesday of joining the Paris demonstration on Thursday, and to take action face to face the French company Sodexho to defend union rights in the United States.
"We have asked Sodexho management in the United States to acknowledge the right to unionize in a better way but we've made little headway and we therefore want the French management of the company to be involved in this issue", explained member Autumn Weintraub of the SEIU (two million members).
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